moral sensitivity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandsensitivity
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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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sensitivity
noun
uk/ˌsen.sɪˈtɪv.ə.ti/us/ˌsen.səˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
an ability to understand what other people need, and be helpful and kind ...
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(Definition ofmoralandsensitivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Teaching health care ethics: the importance ofmoralsensitivityfor moral reasoning.
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These developments, in turn, may changemoralsensitivityand opinions, and as a result, some fresh knowledge could be acquired.
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Ourmoralsensitivityfor people for whom we are responsible has been blunted already.
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The desire for privacy in what are essentially private matters is not proof of moral obloquy or inadequatemoralsensitivity.
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To see explorations in ethical values as the corrective for the deficiencies of contemporary development economics is at best selfindulgence masquerading asmoralsensitivity; at worst it is a distraction.
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They can lead to infected foods, epidemics, failure to ensure safety and an environment which offends the eye, the ear andmoralsensitivity.
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These weremoralsensitivity, moral judgment, moral motivation, and moral character.
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Other agencies than the law must bear responsibility for helping people to developmoralsensitivity so that they can "vote with their feet", as we say.
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But the real underlying problem here is the need to inject into the community amoralsensitivityin this field, as has long been cultivated in other fields.
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The first of these ismoralsensitivity, which is the ability to see an ethical dilemma, including how our actions will affect others.
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