principle of morality

collocation in English

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principle
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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morality
noun
uk
/məˈræl.ə.ti/us
/məˈræl.ə.t̬i/
a set of personal or social standards for good or bad behaviour ...
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(Definition ofprincipleandmoralityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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While the semi-barbarian stood on theprincipleofmorality, the civilized opposed the principle of pelf.
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A rigorist theory of moral motivation is not an additional feature that adherents of the categorical imperative as the supremeprincipleofmoralitycan take or leave.
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There are some in our midst who would not regard this line of country as an elementaryprincipleofmorality.
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That elementaryprincipleofmoralityis that if one has done wrong, one should try to put right the wrong one has done.
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How therefore can it on anyprincipleofmoralitybe said that they ought to be given an advantage over other classes of creditors?
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A law expresses someprincipleofmoralityor some counsel of public expediency, and either that principle of morality or that counsel of expediency is invaded or it is not.
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Kant then asks why we have to follow theprincipleofmorality.
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His general answer is that the basic principles of morality are 'pan-cultural' but that they are given specific shape by history.
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Intuitionism and utilitarianism seem to give rival answers to the same question, about the basic principles of morality.
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Mill's principle of utility is the trueprincipleofmoralityand human nature and makes it possible for the greatest number to have the greatest happiness.
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The principles of morality need not enter the analysis of plans in general.
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I offer it only as a means of deflecting the natural lawyer's objection by showing that it is possible to explain disagreement without resorting to the principles of morality.
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Whether they look to a conventional rule or to the principles of morality in order to determine which rules to apply is, for now, an open question.
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The defense would continue by showing that such plans are conventions and that they come into existence by being practiced, not in virtue of the principles of morality.
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That is subversive, surely, not only of sound principles of law, but of sound principles of morality.
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The main religions, amazingly, all seem to have the same basic principles of morality.
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My point, however, is that politics are only sound when they are conducted on principles of morality, because they are, in fact, the morals of a nation.
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These virtues have to be established first by constant application of the principles of morality in the face of obstacles.
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It was contrary to the principles of morality and justice.
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Herein lies the explanation of the principles of morality for the daily walk of life.
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