Sentence examples for morally ideal from inspiring English sources

So to the extent that a society ruled by an authority that has the right to rule is an ideal of a moral community, the other types of authority are lesser forms of a morally ideal political community.

He saw the Baʿth's main goal, the unification of all the Arab states into a single socialist nation, as a regenerative process that would reform Arab society and character and as a vital creative force that would foster the emergence of a morally ideal society.

Their conception of Heaven is in effect that of a morally ideal sovereign, whom they characterize as wise or all-knowing, all-embracing, benevolent, generous, and impartial.

This has been judged as problematic or even absurd because in modern meta-ethical discourse the is-ought gap is accepted as logical basis for all ethical deliberations, and, moreover, the collapse would mean that our actual world is a morally "ideal" one.

These philosophers hold that beneficent action is virtuous and a commendable moral ideal, but not an obligation, and thus that persons are not morally deficient if they fail to act beneficently.

The principle is most commonly justified on the grounds that people are morally equal and that equality in material goods and services is the best way to give effect to this moral ideal.

Is liberal nationalism a coherent and morally compelling ideal?

The implication is that this may be unfortunate — not exactly ideal morally — but it can't be helped, because it's natural, biological.

(Tharindu, 23 years, unmarried) The 'respectful partner' masculinity style was depicted as a morally upright masculine ideal by the study participants.

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.

For Bloom and other Straussians (followers of the German-émigré philosopher Leo Strauss), the ideal student is morally earnest and sexually naive, a young man brimming with unspent eros, which the teacher can help him sublimate — that is, transform into an erotic attraction to the sublime objects of philosophical reflection.