moral constraint
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandconstraint
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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constraint
noun
uk/kənˈstreɪnt/us/kənˈstreɪnt/
something that controls what you do by keeping you within ...
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(Definition ofmoralandconstraintfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmoral constraint
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Moral arguments may be necessar y to determine whether amoralconstrainton validity has been violated by a purportedly authoritative directive.
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If justice is a deontologicalmoralconstraintindependent of the law, it must surely apply to other social institutions.
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Before we explore this challenge, it will be helpful to indicate in a chart the common intuitions about whether certain types of action are subject to a specialmoralconstraint.
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It does not even ensure independence in its deeper sense, that is the ability for everyone to think and act in freedom, without any material ormoralconstraint.
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But an attractive alternative view grounds moral constraints in respect for intrinsic values.
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In light of our observations about cultural and gender differences, some moral constraints need to be placed on negotiation.
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Other moral constraints thus apply, and therefore being an effective treatment is not a sufficient condition for an intervention being permissible.
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For the naturalist affirms, while the positivist denies, that there are necessar y moral constraints on the content of law.
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Rights are not part of these evaluations; they are moral constraints that specify what means we may use to bring about the best outcome.
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This is not to say that in the absence of the capacity for autonomy there are no moral constraints on how we treat others (including nonhumans). 13.
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Village infrastructures are not usually ' communal ' or public, even if their usage happens to be public (and though there are strong moral constraints governing their accessibility).
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It must also meet moral constraints.
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Given the legislative nature of moral agency, the plausible limitations upon reasonable moral complaint seem to contradict the inviolability of central moral constraints and the complaints they allow.
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Given the legislative nature of moral agency, the plausible limitations upon reasonable moral complaint seem to contradict the inviolability of central moral constraints and the complaints that they allow.
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Privacy, deontic epistemic action logic and software agents, an executable approach to modeling moral constraints in complex informational relationships.
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In other words, moral constraints are justified because they make us all better off, in terms of our preferences (whatever they may be).
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Are there moral constraints in wartime on soldiers, statesmen, citizens?
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By the late 17th century it had acquired the specific meaning of addicted to pleasures and dissipations, an extension of its primary meaning of carefree implying uninhibited by moral constraints.
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