Sentence examples for morally sufficient from inspiring English sources

More currently, philosophers have argued that granting humans the freedom to exercise their own will is a morally sufficient reason for God to withdraw irrevocably from intervening against specific evils.

As I shall use that term, this involves the thesis that, for every actual evil found in the world, one can describe some state of affairs that it is reasonable to believe exists, and which is such that, if it exists, will provide an omnipotent and omniscient being with a morally sufficient reason for allowing the evil in question.

In all possible worlds where a perfectly good God as a necessary being would exist, there would be a justificatory morally sufficient reason for the evils that would exist, or at least, given the existence of gratuitous evils, for the possibility of the existence of such evils (Reichenbach, Evil and a Good God, 38 39).

It should be noted here that the term "theodicy" is sometimes used in a stronger sense, according to which a person who offers a theodicy is attempting to show not only that such morally sufficient reasons exist, but that the reasons cited are in fact God's reasons.

Stupidity, thoughtlessness, indifference, and incompetence are not morally sufficient excuses nor valid legal defenses".

Aquinas began by attempting to establish the existence of God, through his Five Ways, and then attested that God is good and must have a morally sufficient reason for allowing evil to exist.

The rights of a small nation, the protection of its neutrality and the sanctity of international law were — strategically, as well as morally — of sufficient importance to British views of the international order to make this "a war of necessity," not "a war of choice".

Presenting Philpott's appeal, her barrister Shaun Smith QC said: "[Her] utter dependence... on Mick Philpott, whilst not excusing culpability, legally or morally, was not given sufficient weight in assessing the length of her sentence".

"The fact that they did not do further investigation of his claim to be innocent is morally outrageous, but not sufficient," Walen said in an email.

However, we have come across a reason for thinking such education and cognitive enhancement cannot be sufficient for moral enhancement: to be morally good involves not just knowing what is good, but being so strongly motivated to do it that this overpowers selfish, nepotistic, xenophobic, etc. biases and impulses.

For severe diseases, it could be argued, susceptibility tests are morally required to be of sufficient clinical validity, because low or moderately predictive testing for severe diseases would leave the tested individual with high degrees of uncertainty in the light of a fearful medical scenario.