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).
Where that movie was all precocious witticisms and worthy examinations of personal morality played out against a musical backdrop of hokey indie awfulness, Barrymore's film burns with an unsentimental fire emanating from its B-movie subject matter, a rocking soundtrack and pitch-perfect performances from castmembers who are clearly having far more fun than they're used to.
It was a farce worthy of Noel Coward, a morality play pitched somewhere between Terrence Rattigan and The Producers.
To say, for instance, that an impartial choice is one that is free of bias or prejudice is to presuppose that we are dealing with a certain sort of impartiality, that which is required or recommended by morality, or at least worthy of moral approbation.
Nietzsche and Sartre help us consider whether even morality itself is a worthy goal of human existence.
I know I have been facetious so far, but the random nature of the FA's morality is so completely worthy of ridicule.
The various beings that constitute this personified natural setting enforce morality by rewarding the worthy and punishing the wicked.
It does so solely on financial grounds, expressed within a considered legal context, leaving for others to advance arguments on the basis of global urgency, morality, chartered purpose or other worthy grounds.
That a person or a thing is itself and nothing else, and is therefore worthy of notice and celebration, may be the beginning of morality, but it's also the beginning of tragedy.
"Walk the Line" becomes a kind of bantering romantic morality play, in which he struggles to be worthy of her love, and she struggles against her desire to have him.
