Sentences with phrase «ground of a moral judgment»

The example was meant to bring out even more sharply Immanuel Kant's point that a unanimity of feeling simply can not supply the ground of a moral judgment.

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Simply put, there is no neutral ground from which humans form moral and political judgments because such decisions embody an embrace of this authority or that authority.

Certainly he will be forced to renounce every moral imperative with a transcendent ground, and this means that he must forswear the possibility of an absolute moral law, and at best look upon all forms of moral judgment as penultimate ways which must inevitably act as barriers to the full realization of energy and life.

And yet that was never enough to shake the confidence of conservative judges that the appeal to tradition is valued precisely because it delivers a ground of judgment safely distant from the need to weigh the moral justifications for acts of legislation.

Place a young child at the heart of that decision tree, and the result may yield emotional turmoil and an abundance of moral high ground and judgment.