moral evil

collocation in English

meaningsofmoralandevil

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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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evil
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈiː.vəl/us
/ˈiː.vəl/
something that is very bad ...
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(Definition ofmoralandevilfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the case ofmoralevil, it includes perpetrators of evil-doing.
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Muchmoralevil(good) is analysable as competition (co-operation) among humans.
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When he turns tomoralevil, he claims that objectivism implies a ' virtue or character ethic ' (106).
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Contributing anything in taxes is considered amoralevil.
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Of more moment is that there much moremoralevilthan is needed for the purpose of realizing the good of there being free persons.
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I'd argue in addition that there is no solution to the problem ofmoralevilwithout appeal to it at some point.
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I am not suggesting that such choices are morally significant or that natural evil is really some kind ofmoralevil.
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It stands in contrast tomoralevil.
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On the one side there is moral good; on the other side there is greatmoralevil.
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Such a world would be one without any possibility ofmoralevil, and thus one without any freedom of the sort the free-will defence for moral evils posits we enjoy.
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And, quite apart from themoralevilwhich is involved, there is the constitutional evil to which reference has so frequently been made this afternoon.
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Both natural andmoralevilare a challenge to religious believers.
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So we can fairly describe it as amoralevilif we do not do far better in the future than we have ever done in the past.
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There he encountered many of the issues involvingmoraleviland racism that would dominate his later scholarship.
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It is among the earliest writings on the philosophy of ugliness and draws an analogy between ugliness andmoralevil.
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The first part of this defense accounts formoralevilas the result of free human action.
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In the same way,moralevil, or vice, is proportionate to the number of people made to suffer.
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It is an indication of the levity with which this social evil is treated by them, and there is no doubt that it is a social and amoralevil.
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The real question which we have always had to decide is: is it in the public interest that this particular kind ofmoralevildoing should be illegal, or not?
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A third reply is that though the free will defence has the potential to explainmoralevil, it fails to address natural evil.
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By definition,moralevilresults from human action, but natural evil results from natural processes that cause natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions or earthquakes.
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It is a sin ormoralevilby itself, even in irresponsible children, and that outside of all relation to a will, be it original or personal.
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