moral discourse
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralanddiscourse
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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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discourse
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.kɔːs/us/ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/
languagespecialized
the use of language to communicate in speech or writing, or an example ...
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(Definition ofmoralanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmoral discourse
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Other constraints were created inmoraldiscourseand through social conflicts over place.
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As historians, we ought to attend to how gender has been historically constructed and reinforced throughmoraldiscourseas well as social practice.
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The discussion of right (and wrong) in chap. 3 explores the use of this term in bothmoraldiscourseand conversational contexts.
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The depth of the dilemmas that we must address will not dissipate merely because we use a common mode ofmoraldiscourseto address them.
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If we inform only the system of the patient's model, we are reinforcing medicine as a privileged domain ofmoraldiscourse.
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However, if they are not displaced, the compatibility of selfishness and altruism has no implications at all for commonmoraldiscourseand practice.
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I do not really know whether it plays any stable role in our present-daymoraldiscourse.
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For in accepting thismoraldiscoursethey opened themselves to the either/or language of a judgement before which agents are fully accountable: innocent or guilty.
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But because medicine is so hierarchical, it is often difficult for clinicians to learn that optimalmoraldiscourserequires flattening traditional power hierarchies during moral discussion and ethical argumentation.
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Joyce appeals to the evolutionary advantageousness ofmoraldiscourseto suggest why we should retain that discourse but within a fictionalist framework.
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But he must distinguish his answer from a merely sociological/ anthropological one that explainsmoraldiscoursebut leaves the world without any genuine morality in it.
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Because of this it is often said that whereas the function of much human discourse is to describe or represent reality, the function ofmoraldiscourseis significantly different.
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Demarcations between sites were put in place, not only in ordinances, but also inmoraldiscourse, through social practice, by the use of violence and by financial constraints.
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Many people are uneasy about concepts of group agency and group preference because of certain ways in which these concepts can be used in political andmoraldiscourse.
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We then end up with young people who lack the capacity to conduct amoraldiscourseor to consider ethical judgments rationally.
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They should be able to make moral judgments and understand how the capacity to engage inmoraldiscourse is integrally related to the development of moral character.
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This allows formoraldiscoursewith shared standards, notwithstanding the descriptive properties or truth conditions of moral terms.
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He believed that formal features ofmoraldiscoursecould be used to show that correct moral reasoning will lead most agents to a form of preference utilitarianism.
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Even once the terms of scientificmoraldiscourseare accepted, this will not automatically cause moral behavior (i.e. not even among those who explicitly agree to the terms).
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