Sentences with phrase «moral compulsion»

So we have a moral compulsion to act now.»

According to recent pronouncements by the AGU, regardless of whether Lindzen is «misleading» for reasons of moral compulsion or material gain, he ought to be censured.

He is engaging in deception for reasons apparently unconnected with moral compulsion.

Schweitzer sensed that medicine was one of Europe's most prized developments, and so out of his own sense of moral compulsion he decided to give up his other flourishing activities, learn medicine, and use that skill for the benefit of Africans.

But the deeper question (which was never answered by Hitchens) is where the moral compulsion upon anyone — atheist or believer — comes from in a godless universe.

He quit his unofficial post as White House regulatory czar, not because of moral compulsion, but because he knew that The New Yorker was about to drop an article revealing the extent of his self - dealing on behalf of his refinery company.

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They would like to be relieved of that compulsion, but that can't happen, they are told, because the larger society's understanding of the moral life overrules the understanding prescribed by their religious convictions.

He ceases to be an independent, initiating agent; he is part of a system in which nothing has weight or meaning; and (this is important) so far as he obeys these inescapable compulsions he is no longer a moral being.