Sentence examples for worthy action from inspiring English sources

They must also be infused with the appropriate emotions, sentiments, and feelings to perform an entirely morally worthy action (Blum, Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, 1980).

Now is the time, like never before, to hitch up our Big Girl and Big Boy pants and step forward, taking responsibility for leadership and love and progress for all... for deep values and worthy action... starting with ourselves and taking the example forward from there.

What is the motive of a morally worthy action?

The effort required for the agent to perform the kind of morally desirable action that she in fact performed (henceforth, 'Effort Required') negatively influences moral worth, in the sense that, at least over some range, increased Effort Required makes for less morally worthy action.

Even worthy actions can sometimes have unintended consequences.

On Kant's account, the moral law and people who exemplify it in morally worthy actions elicit reverentia from us, for we experience the law or its exemplification as "something that always trumps our inclinations in determining our wills" (Feinberg 1975, 2).

I think one judgment-worthy action may be what you and I do about the militarization of Jeju Island, South Korea, in service of the arms race.

2. Plenty of action Tris may not have to roam the woods for hours at a time to provide for her family, but there is still a plethora of Hunger Games-worthy action scenes in the books, some being disturbingly creative.