Sentence examples for reason and morality from inspiring English sources

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.

Mr. Shevardnadze's purpose was what reason and morality demanded - slow down the mad rush toward unification.

People will, of course, often disagree about the substance, scope, and demands of reason and morality, but it is nonetheless necessary to at least grasp such distinctions for consent to be meaningful.

And by bringing the sects together, and mixing them with the mass of other students, we shall soften their asperities, liberalize and neutralize their prejudices, and make the general religion a religion of peace, reason, and morality.

Thus belief in global warming is a perversion of science, the undermining of religion is an assault on reason and morality, criticism of Israel is surrender to Islamic imperialism and the weakening of nationalism is an assault on civilisation itself.

"I can actually see us getting a break from the whole 'security state' atmosphere and witnessing a shift away from the sort of empty populist discourse of the last government toward something with more of a stress on reason and morality," he says.

Then as now, those in the dock were voices of reason, honesty and morality, while their persecutors were cruel, absurd, and ultimately immoral.

Since then, he said, the Islamists "became under the illusion that a personal enmity exists between them and the judges of this court, and they started having bloody revenge tendencies, and the desire for retribution caused them to lose reason, conscience and morality".

The Conduct reveals the connections Locke sees between reason, freedom and morality.

Ibn Rushd tried to reconcile reason and humane morality with God and faith, positing a kindly God and an unfanatic faith.

"It was a completely misguided and unbelievably bone-head decision that defied all reason, common sense, and morality," Murphy said.