Sentence examples for underlying morality from inspiring English sources
I'm surprised, though, that he does not have very much to say about the underlying morality of the piece.
Mr. Chen said that in China, the issue was forced abortions and that he had not given much thought to the underlying morality of abortion.
Le Clézio, the writer of nature, explains the underlying morality of his own preoccupation: The fact that a man may be happy for a moment, by the shore of a lake, because there are bats in the sky, doesn't mean that the problem of the world has been solved, it means that the man is all the more sensitive to nature's grand moments of peace than he is to the city's grand moments of war.
The stories are expressive and traditional, but with the underlying morality we have forgotten.
It is misguided to think that we will be able to identify single genes or a single combination of genes that underlie morality and moral behavior.
As in early Mohism, "benefit" (li) is the fundamental standard of what is moral or right (yi), which underlies moral duties and virtues: "Morality is benefit" (A8, B76).
Prominent evolutionary theories of morality maintain that the adaptations that underlie moral judgment and behavior function, at least in part, to deliver benefits (or prevent harm) to others.
In a cowardly moment, Sparrow abandons his crew during the Kraken's attack, but underlying loyalty and morality compel him to return and save them.
A sense of the common good which is a core of shared values is the underlying presupposition of African social morality.
In their seminal work Principles of Biomedical Ethics Thomas Beauchamp and James Childress argue that a set of principles should function as an analytical framework that expresses the general values underlying rules in the common morality.
Most obviously, a familiar kind of moral pluralism contends that these intuitively attractive rules constitute the most basic level of morality, i.e., that there is no deeper moral principle underlying and unifying these rules.
