Sentence examples for positive moral from inspiring English sources

In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (first edition 1690; fourth edition 1700, hereafter referred to as the Essay) Locke spends little time discussing morality, and what he does provide in the way of a moral epistemology seems underdeveloped, offering, at best, the suggestion of what a moral system might look like rather than a fully-realized positive moral position.

Anyone who makes the positive moral claim that sodomy is morally wrong seems to need some reason for that claim, just as someone who claims that there is life on Mars seems to need evidence for that claim.

However, error theorists can allow a negative moral belief (such as that eating meat is not morally wrong) to be true, but only if it merely denies the truth of the corresponding positive moral belief (that eating meat is morally wrong).

Data from both corporate and community sources indicated that the mining companies officially recognised both negative rights of their stakeholders as well as positive moral duties towards their communities, a dual position Egoists would not take.

Furthermore, supererogationists of the unqualified kind would resist this exemption-based analysis as playing down the positive moral value of supererogation and relegating it to the morally neutral category of the "permitted" (Heyd 1992).

Thus unless one is willing to give up on the idea that morality imposes a proportionality limit and on the importance of positive moral desert for justifying punishment up to that point as respectful of the individual both intuitively difficult to give up there is reason to continue to take notion of retributive justice, and the project of justifying it, seriously.

"I love stories with positive morals," Ms. Maye said.

Working hard, getting an education and possessing positive morals and values has become less and less important.

If acts are to have pre-positive moral properties, they must also have a pre-positive aptitude to be morally good or bad.

Interpreters disagree on whether Suárez leaves room for pre-positive moral duties (that is, moral duties which do not draw their binding force from God's commands) and on whether, if this is in fact the case, such duties are compatible with his general account of natural law.

Even if one succeeds in developing a positive theory of moral epistemology in light of which moral knowledge might be possible, the substantive challenge of showing that knowledge has actually been secured remains formidable.