Sentence examples for ordinary morality from inspiring English sources

Balder van Aldegonde is a self-styled philosopher-king with a tainted pedigree and a meretricious contempt for ordinary morality.

The new Dulwich Hamlet superfans, who call themselves The Rabble, are aware of their peculiarity – one of their slogans is: "Ordinary morality is for ordinary football clubs".

We have only duties deriving from specific roles and assignments of duty that are not a part of ordinary morality.

The claim is not that common sense or ordinary morality leads to Pareto-efficient results (if followed).

Singer's proposals have struck many as overly demanding, impracticable, and a significant departure from the demands of ordinary morality.

The contrast between nonmaleficence and beneficence notwithstanding, ordinary morality suggests that there are some rules of beneficence that we are obligated to follow impartially, such as those requiring that we make efforts to rescue strangers under conditions of minimal risk.

In ordinary terms, morality may be less what you do so much as why you do it: are your motives or intentions "good," regardless of the actual outcome?

Euthyphro is taking his own father to court for murder, and though ordinary Greek morality would condemn such an action as impiety, Euthyphro defends it on the basis that the gods behave in the same sort of way, according to the traditional stories.

In those moments it was obvious that what keeps crime down is not policing but morality: ordinary people freely deciding not to do things which are criminal and wrong even though would almost certainly go unpunished.

One question that might be raised here is whether we are left with enough of our ordinary conception of morality to include genuine notions of blame and responsibility.

A cursory look at the Potable Water scenario and the Stakeholder moral responsibility all will point to Kagan's (1989) 'ordinary morality' regarding both negative rights and positive duties.