moral decision

collocation in English

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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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decision
noun
uk
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...
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(Definition ofmoralanddecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It begins with a discussion ofmoraldecision-making.
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However, let us not pretend that it was amoraldecision.
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This is amoraldecisionfor the woman herself, but, in my view, in making her decision, there is another party—the child.
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The debate evokes difficult moral dilemmas for many people and, in that sense, it is amoraldecision, not a political decision.
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At that time, the pilots, and the men and women who had to service the aircraft, had to take amoraldecision.
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Others consider that this is amoraldecisionthat each person should make for himself.
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They should exercise their conscience in their own personal,moraldecision-making and through their own religious convictions.
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That is a decision that was taken many years ago—chiefly a political andmoraldecision, although not exclusively, because it was taken on the basis of experience, too.
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Haidt asserts that moral judgment is primarily given rise to by intuition with reasoning playing a very marginalized role in most of ourmoraldecision-making.
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The dilemmas are fictional short stories that describe situations in which a person has to make amoraldecision.
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With regard to ethics, however, it can be used to reflect on any situation that requiresmoraldecision-making.
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The books highlight the inevitability of temptation andmoraldecision-making, regardless of external situation.
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Indeed, we should reject any system that reducesmoraldecision-making to a few algorithms, because any systematization or reductionism will distort its complexity.
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His teaching focuses on issues in ethics,moraldecision-making, and democracy.
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One study looked at the role emotions play in adolescentsmoraldecision-making.
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In the course of this meditation the lyric speaker achieves an insight, faces up to a tragic loss, comes to amoraldecision, or resolves an emotional problem.
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All in all, there are many factors that come into play in deciding whether a person will behave in a certain fashion when dealing with amoraldecision.
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He concluded this work with a discussion of responsible action and moral decisions.
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She has argued that women make moral decisions based on different sets of priorities, mainly those which incorporate the social impact of decisions.
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