Sentence examples for universal morality from inspiring English sources

This theory is presented in several works published during the 1770's, La politique naturelle (Natural Politics, 1773), Système social (The Social System, 1773), La morale universelle (Universal Morality, 1776), and Ethocratie (Ethocracy, 1776).

"The Noah story is the birth of the idea of universal morality, that everyone should be moral," Perlo said.

The Koran instructs all humans to engage in universal morality by creating and upholding a moral order based on the values of justice, equality, truthfulness, fairness and honesty.

But the idea of a universal morality had struggled to find support among moral philosophers, possibly because the relativists' position - that the values and standards of a particular society are the inevitable product of unique cultural experience and therefore equally valid - helps explain historical events more easily.

In order to test the possibility of a universal morality, Kohlberg devised a theory for the development of moral reasoning based on stages that could be observed, or at least imagined, in humans.

By repeatedly emphasizing his doubts about philosophy's ability to ground a universal morality, Strauss suggests that revelation remains and must remain a continual moral challenge for philosophy (see also JPCM; NRH, pp. 106 107; PAW, p. 140).

Ethical relativists deny that there is any universal normative morality and claim that the actual moralities of societies are the only moralities there are.

On the basis of evidence of this kind, some such as Sissela Bok (1995) and Michael Walzer (1994) have proposed that there is a universal minimal morality, whatever other moral differences there may be.

It could even be that because the wholeness of the human person and even of creation is at stake, not an appeal to so-called "moral law," or "natural law," or to universal, abstract morality, all of which reify the apparatuses of cultural institutions, the former is emphasized and the latter apparently neglected.

Hence, most traditional "natural law" moral doctrines--including the belief in a universal, objective morality grounded in human nature--do not contradict legal positivism.

Our contemporary template of universal political morality — human rights, democracy, freedom — was not yet in place.