But the theological voluntarist may deny that acting justly is morally required prior to God's commanding it, any more than acting courageously, temperately, or prudently are morally required prior to God's commanding us to act courageously, temperately, or prudently.
An act(ion) is paradigmatically what it is intended to be; that is, its morally primary description – prior to any moral evaluation or predicate — is the description it had in the deliberation by which one shaped the proposal to act thus.
On his view in the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason, reasoning well, morally, does not depend on any prior motivational commitment, yet remains practical reasoning.
Is the settled law which the judge is morally authorized to set aside thereby being treated, even prior to the judge's handing down of judgment, as not law?
Fiennes joined New Yorker staff writer Anthony Lane for a discussion of "Coriolanus" (which the audience had watched prior to the discussion), Shakespeare, and the appeal of morally ambiguous stories.
Prior to the term "psychopath," these people were often deemed "morally insane".
Before we look at ways of sorting out which features are morally relevant or most morally relevant, it may be useful to note a prior step taken by some casuists, which was to attempt to set out a schema that would capture all of the features of an action or proposed action.
"Is it morally incorrect?
