moral sentiment
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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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sentiment
noun
uk/ˈsen.tɪ.mənt/us/ˈsen.t̬ə.mənt/
formal
a thought, opinion, or idea based on a feeling about a situation, or a way of thinking ...
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These consisted of showing plausibly the evolutionary origin of humanmoralsentimentand of establishing its adaptive value.
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He feared that ' when the state makes the practice of certain duties mandatory, it destroys themoralsentimentwhich inspires them '.*!
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But the biologist and cognitivist alike see all the differences in thought, feeling,moralsentiment of the soldiers, as contemporary with their current behavior.
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Themoralsentimentof our times is embodied in pacts and covenants, declaring that countries will not go to war.
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These are not people who act with anymoralsentimentwhatever.
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Themoralsentimentof the whole world is against our enemies to day, and the result will be the same.
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The main ingredient was loftymoralsentiment, which nobody would question; the residue consisted of unsound logic and unreliable statements.
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Where did all these glittering epigrams of quite unexceptionablemoralsentimentlead?
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He succeeded again and again, but a time came when he roused against him themoralsentimentof the whole world, and he was thrown out.
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Fashion also has an effect onmoralsentiment.
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Nevertheless, the basic legislative scheme andmoralsentimentremained the same.
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In effect, our moral sentiments of merit and demerit are norms of propriety with respect to gratitude and resentment.
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Indeed, he claims that our moral sentiments are partially constituted by and rational on the basis of a pertinent set of beliefs.
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An economist by training, his game-theoretic and experimental work addresses the origins and evolution of languages, moral sentiments, conventions, and organizations.
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Those tendencies and moral sentiments motivate us to participate in society, and to abide by the constraints that social life imposes on us.
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But if our moral sentiments are in fact generated by the interplay of fellow-feeling, we must expect them to incorporate whatever systematic biases fellow-feeling really is subject to.
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His theory explains how, as a result of psychological processes activated by simple human interactions, these innate tendencies induce the more complex moral sentiments of benevolence and justice.
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It would be too complicated to pursue the economic, military, and material reactions, apart from moral sentiments altogether, into the other countries.
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