moral significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandsignificance
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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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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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Themoralsignificanceof the intending-foreseeing distinction requires more than the mere functional role of intention and foresight.
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The decision to settle or move to an earthquake-prone location is typically a free choice of nomoralsignificance.
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In these circumstances, the harms these injuries represent do not have the samemoralsignificancethat other impositions of harm have.
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I do not assume that the nationalist position on themoralsignificanceof such ties is uncontroversial.
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At any rate, it is certainly not how most nationalist theorists understand themoralsignificanceof nationality and national ties.
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Thus, unit ethicists recognize the practical andmoralsignificanceof the unit's distinct medical and personal context.
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He may disagree with others about themoralsignificanceof nongrievance evils, but that is a disagreement globalists have all along recognized.
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Perhaps we should look at other ways of endowing the distinction withmoralsignificance.
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And the caused in a branching causal structure by removing something/caused in a nonbranching causal structure by adding something distinction lacksmoralsignificance.
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Several changes withmoralsignificancefor the system have already been decided or are intended for future implementation.
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Themoralsignificanceof birth, we argue, is not so much significance for the fetus/infant as for the pregnant woman/mother.
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Themoralsignificanceof these permissions consists at least partly in their grounding-and explaining-various duties.
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Further attention is given over to themoralsignificanceof collective responsibility on individual actions.
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But, the objection goes, small differences in the level of absolute well-being cannot have disproportionatey bigmoralsignificance.
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It was clearly this prior institutional setting that endowed the fantasy with whatevermoralsignificanceand transmissibility it possessed.
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Such theories-at least in their more simple, direct versions-cannot accord intrinsicmoralsignificance to the distinction between intending and foreseeing.
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