Sentence examples for which morality from inspiring English sources

(3) But (and here Herder's theory moves beyond Kant's), worse than that, they are actually harmful to morality, because they weaken the moral sentiments on which morality really rests.

For the respects in which morality is relative, it is up to particular societies or individuals to determine which moral values to embrace.

The question is which morality an atheist should serve.

"The battlefield is mankind's lost paradise — the paradise in which morality and human conduct are at their highest," he says.

When Thoreau wrote "Walden," America was an overwhelmingly Christian society in which morality was public while work and family were private.

Wittily, airily, Wilde proclaimed a new hedonism in which morality was the preserve of lesser spirits; that is to say, of those who were not artists.

He argued that more than one morality may be true, but there are limits on which moralities are true.

There is, however, a major tradition in moral philosophy which understands morality as essentially universal and impartial, and seems to rule out local, partial attachment and loyalty.

Ours is a world, Murdock, in which conscious morality is treated with derision and reason with scorn.

Could the behaviors evolved by social animals to make societies work be the foundation from which human morality evolved?

As I see it, human beings and citizens in complex, modern democratic societies regularly confront situations in which traditional morality provides little if any guidance.