Sentence examples for natural morality from inspiring English sources

Rand's compassion requires privatizing social welfare, morally vetting those in need, and punishing those who violate "natural" morality.

But let us not mock too much: the instincts and habits that make us extend our circles of compassion outward, however irrationally, are the ones that bring us closer to something like a shared natural morality.

Their interest in the "natural"—that is, natural morality, religion, economy, or education, in contrast to the merely conventional and historically derived sprang as much from the desire to hold a glass up to a surrounding society that they disliked as from any dispassionate urge simply to find out what man and society are made of.

This suggested to him that natural morality was conducive to the happiness of the social body, though not always the happiness of the individual, and not that of the entire species.

"It is forbidden," Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook writes, "for the fear of heaven [yirat shamayim] to push aside the human being's natural morality, for then it would no longer be pure fear of heaven".

The structure of things being what it is, the principles of practical reason and morality (natural moral law and natural right) can be understood, accepted, and lived by, as fully directive in conscience, without needing to be regarded as (what they really are) an appeal from mind to mind, a plan — freely made to be freely adopted — for integral human fulfillment.

This idea of conscience as a kind of natural moral affection complements Cockburn's view that morality is founded upon human nature: Moral knowledge arises from reflection upon our own natures and moral affection arises out of our natural constitutions.

Since according to Ehrenfels males represent the active sex, not just among humans, but "in the entire bisexual animal kingdom", and the females' sex drive is only operative as a response to the males', the male sex drive is the biologically more important one, and hence the basis for re-establishing the natural sexual morality.

He has a sunny disposition and a well-developed, if naively natural, sense of morality.

Is natural law, or morality, based on divine commandment?

Hume thinks that "systems and hypotheses" have also "perverted our natural understanding" of morality.