moral principle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandprinciple
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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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principle
noun
uk/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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(Definition ofmoralandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Unfortunately, in both cases, little argumentation is presented as to why a newmoralprincipleis needed.
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If justice or nonoppression is the underlyingmoralprinciple, then judgments about morally relevant categories will depend upon more analysis of justice and oppression.
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The connection between the legal principles of self-determination and themoralprincipleof autonomy is clear.
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In response, we surmise that some physicians who abet draft evasion are answering to a highermoralprinciplethat transcends both the law and bioethics.
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Is there anymoralprinciplethat would justify such an arrangement?
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If we are inclined to draw any conclusion, we do so on the basis of somemoralprincipleas yet unspecified.
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Almost all of the pass-on responses conveyed a generalmoralprinciple(84 per cent).
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Rather, the moral wrongness of any application of their technical knowledge must reside in some incriminatingmoralprinciple.
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Medical knowledge alone is not sufficient to create moral obligations absent somemoralprinciplethat would yield those obligations.
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Each interpretation of what it is for something to be knowable to an agent yields a distinctmoralprinciple.
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No discerniblemoralprinciple, however, supports this version of the improvement/worsening criterion.
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Do we then give up on survival in order to uphold some highermoralprinciple?
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Moreover, eachmoralprincipleemphasized in the various traditions within moral philosophy is embedded within a particular moral theory.
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Principle monists believe that our moral duties, such as fidelity and non-maleficence, can be justified in terms of one basicmoralprinciple.
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What this test for legality denies is that being a truemoralprincipleever suffices to make a norm legal. 22.
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In the second case, it is left entirely to the judge's discretion whether to apply any givenmoralprinciple.
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So, too, hating something may enable me to see something wrong with it which in turn leads to a crucial objectivemoralprinciple.
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These include pragmatic virtues that derive from the intensional content of amoralprinciple.
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It is not a broadly applicablemoralprinciple.
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