Sentence examples for requirements of morality from inspiring English sources

If the requirements of rationality can require an action that is ruled out by the requirements of morality, or vice versa, then we have a problem: the absolutely perfect being cannot be both perfectly rational and perfectly morally good.

Nature prompts us to do only what is advantageous to us, and if we try to act contrary to its promptings we inevitably suffer for it as a natural consequence, whereas morality typically restrains us from doing what is advantageous to ourselves and requires us to do what is disadvantageous, and if we violate the requirements of morality we come to harm only if we are found out.

Speaking on the broadcaster Andrew Denton's podcast, Better Off Dead, the former prime minister said opposition to euthanasia "doesn't meet any requirements of morality and good sense" and that Australia had the legal and medical framework to manage such a law.

Absolutists will claim that we have an obligation to uphold the requirements of morality and keep our hands as clean as possible.

But by disposing themselves to act according to the requirements of morality whenever others are also so disposed, they can gain each others' trust and cooperate successfully.

This objection is tied to a much larger problem of coordinating the demands of ordinary political life with the requirements of morality and religion.

Thus impartialists hold that — contrary, perhaps, to appearances — impartiality is, indeed, a pervasive and universal requirement of morality.

(3) Kant also explores the idea that the subject must posit itself in positing the various forces in matter, a doctrine that has come to be known as the Selbstsetzungslehre, and attempts to incorporate it into his views on how man is situated in between the world of experience and God, whose existence is a central requirement of morality.

Examples of less demanding forms include anonymous gift-giving, uncompensated public service, forgiving another person's costly error, and complying with requests to provide a benefit that exceeds the obligatory requirements of ordinary morality or professional morality.

Intuitively, we should judge that she has not fully lived up to the requirements of perfectionist morality (Hurka 1993, 56).

Outside Plato the most extended and explicit expression of the 'antinomian' stance is a well-known papyrus fragment of Antiphon (DK 87B44), which presents a number of contrasts between the requirements of conventional morality and those of nature, to the disadvantage of the former.