moral norm
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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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norm
noun[C usually plural]
uk/nɔːm/us/nɔːrm/
an accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people ...
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(Definition ofmoralandnormfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We blame people and organizations where we feel they have violated somemoralnorm, and an extreme form of blame is outrage.
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Sometimes what themoralnormof civility demands is that we restrain our selfexpression for the sake of our community.
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Since, on his view, the content of amoralnormcannot be identified without recourse to the reasons justifying that norm, moral criteria of validity are incapable of legitimate authority.
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Another important psychological determinant of pro-social behavior is someone's personal ormoralnorm.
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At bottom, we do not create epistemic and moral norms.
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First, the moral norms of fetal personhood in a particular community must be described.
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My aim is merely to allay worries about holding ethical theories answerable to moral norms in the way that my present proposal does.
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There are no moral norms outside the boundary set by our capacities.
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Unfortunately, the rule of recognition tells me that moral norms are law, but does not tell me how to distinguish moral from non-moral norms.
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What legal positivism must account for in terms of its own basic commitments is simply the fact that moral norms do figure importantly in adjudication.
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In contrast, moral norms provide members of a particular community with reasons for action regardless of whether those agents believe in them.
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Moral norms are not necessarily involved in this distinction between direct and indirect harm to others.
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This principle establishes that if youths do not behave according to moral norms, they must atone and submit to moral correction.
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After all, enforcement of legal as well as moral norms during this period relied much more on local co-operation and surveillance than on official coercion.
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Often these may not be fully conscious, or not admitted to, since they are outside social and moral norms.
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Both lay people and professionals can attempt to articulate the moral norms for either the lay or professional roles.
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