Sentence examples for morally desirable from inspiring English sources

Impulses to violent aggression, while often an impediment to morality, seem morally desirable in certain circumstances; for example, when one is fighting a just war, or perhaps when one is confronted with one person assaulting another on the street.

Taken together, these intuitive reactions (along with reactions to two further cases that lie at different points on the spectrum of effort) lead him to suggest that there is a U-shaped relationship between effort and moral worth: the moral worth of morally desirable actions is greatest at high and low levels of effort, and lowest at moderate levels.

For example, he suggests that the presence of a strong pro-moral desire might positively influence the moral worth of a morally desirable action even if it does not lead to high level of Effort Exerted (say, because Effort Required is low).

Suppose that an agent exerts an amount of effort, e, to perform a morally desirable action whose degree of moral desirability is m.

It is widely believed that the moral worth of a morally desirable action depends in part on whether it was an accident that the agent performed a morally desirable action; as Barbara Herman puts it, "we need to know that it was no accident that the agent acted as duty required" (1981, p. 368).

It aims to provide an account of when and why democracy is morally desirable as well as moral principles for guiding the design of democratic institutions.

Egalitarianism might be upheld as a moral requirement, a component of what we fundamentally owe one another, or as morally optional, a desirable ideal that we might permissibly decline to pursue.

"They make a leap from saying if it's natural, it's morally and ethically desirable".

I can't say if it is morally or socially desirable, but it's a lived reality.

This 'horizon' sets limits on what is morally permissible and desirable, while the 'core' of shared or universal values allows us to reach agreement on at least some moral issues.

21 If, on the other hand, it is understood as holding merely that humans have the capacity for sufficiently moral motives and behaviour (henceforth, the capacity to be moral), then it seems quite consistent with the thought that noncognitive moral enhancement would be morally permissible and indeed desirable.