Sentence examples for reasonable morality from inspiring English sources

A reasonable morality understands the social justice obligations of society as limited, not open-ended and unbounded.

Just as we could never live just like bees, bees could never live just like humans, and no reasonable morality would demand such a thing.

Reasonable levels of national health morality in countries implementing DAH must therefore be agreed upon, and these countries would have to be accountable for their progress in this respect, as much as countries providing DAH would be held accountable for meeting their commitments (see linkage 8).

Hence no conception of welfare is available to serve as a consensus standard for a public morality acceptable to all reasonable persons.

Whatever their views on the merits of the Iraq war and the morality of the death penalty, reasonable people will agree that the arraignment, trial and conviction of a psychopathic despot, sadist and serial killer is an advance for civilisation.

But if happiness consists so centrally in the approbation of others, and in self-approbation, there can be no reasonable conflict between pursuing happiness and pursuing morality.

His only reasonable conclusion is to reject objective meaning and morality.

So this view of morality does nothing to provide a reasonable answer for why it would be objectively wrong to torture diseased children, rape women or kill those who don't affirm a national religion.

Indeed it is a commonplace of contemporary moral and political philosophy that equally sincere, conscientious, and reasonable individuals espouse fundamentally different, and frequently conflicting, views about morality.

He was playing his usual role as the most reasonable man in the room, twinning an appeal to reason with some basic morality.

Her public embrace of Sarah Palin notwithstanding, she had a reasonable civil liberties record, often preached the virtues of legality, political morality, civic virtues, freedom and equality.