Sentences with phrase «in a moral sense»

It is not better or worse in the moral sense, which is what I thought we were discussing.

Not quite so simple, although it is essentially correct in the moral sense.

And in my book on morality and getting these people to grow up I again bring up the example of 19th century industrialists who were incredibly rich and often rather cruel in their business lives who reinvented themselves, so a Carnegie whose business career certainly wasn't exemplary in any moral sense.

Others think of it as libertarian mainly in the moral sense: pivoting solely on the ego of the individual (as in the thought of Ayn Rand), her pleasures, her contentment, her will - to - power.

Hartshorne is not alone in this view Mary Anne Warren refers to a human being in a moral sense as «a full - fledged member of the moral community» whose traits include, but are not limited to, consciousness and the ability to reason.

And all the more, such a duty as that of paying poll tax to the foreign government of occupation is not regarded as a duty at all in the moral sense, but merely as the consequence of political fortune.

While it is true that colonial exercises in state - building vary both in a practical and in a moral sense from those of contemporary international actors, these chapters provide useful historical background to the debate as well as an opportunity to look at how various exit strategies influenced the long - term trajectories for the countries concerned.

The Wind Rises approaches its events from a more lyrical and abstract standpoint, not only not particularly commenting on the events in a moral sense, but also not particularly acknowledging their existence on a direct level.

In the moral sense ~ what right do we as a society have in this country to write children off for circumstances beyond their control ~ and create a system that perpetuates inequity and produces winners and losers?

I've set out elsewhere the reasons for my reservations about CO2 being the cause but let's put that aside for a while and consider whether our production of CO2 is blameworthy in any moral sense.

You have exposed my original point quite nicely with your well - intentioned concern for the business, and my point is this... We have ALL been co-opted by the sales process from the top down, from seventy - five years ago to today, without giving much real thought to just what is going down in a moral sense when the vast majority of us go into this business with thoughts of grandeur, money, fame, more money etc., etc..

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

But if we can not explain this suffering as a deserved punishment, most of us still find unacceptable and unbearable the alternative explanation: that there is no deeper reason for our suffering, that it is after all just a matter of happenstance and bad luck, that it is (in a moral sense) senseless.

What, in a moral sense, do we convey when we refer to people as «selves»?

In its moral sense, it oscillates uncontrollably between applications that are too wide to resolve conflicts («the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness») and ones that are too narrow to be plausible.»

In the moral sense, these rights are an individual's divine knowledge received at the time of our creation.