moral worth
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandworth
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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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worth
noun
uk/wɜːθ/us/wɝːθ/
the amount of money that something can be sold ...
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(Definition ofmoralandworthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmoral worth
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Any action withmoralworthmust be done freely and with knowledge.
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What it means practically to honor another's equalmoralworthis a complicated matter.
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This notion of justice assumes people's equalmoralworth.
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Conversely, lack of wealth could be seen as a sign of lack ofmoralworth.
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The other seems to make a case based on the recognition ofmoralworthand virtue.
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It is a major indicator of ourmoralworth, our social and self-understanding.
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Many practitioners were reported to see the acts/omission distinction as important and ofmoralworth.
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Arguably, two or more courses of action could be of equalmoralworthfor two reasons.
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A sense ofmoralworthand, through this, a positive maternal identity needed to be constructed within a dominant discourse which saw them as 'epitomising the problem'.
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Slack demonstrates the political and intellectual dimensions of consumption and the importance of consumer goods as symbols of status, wealth and political ormoralworth, or signs of the opposite.
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One reason thatmoralworthis regarded as an ultimate form of value is that acquiring it is completely up to the individual.
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Accepting the value of cultural competence in healthcare involves (along with other beliefs) a fundamental normative belief in the equalmoralworthof all persons.
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That is because, as long as one is a member of a society that is "sure of itself," crimes cannot damage one's sense ofmoralworthand political standing.
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Key influences were how the informant judged the child'smoralworthand how they evaluated their past and present roles as parents.
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Sometimes it is argued that anencephalics or the permanently comatose lack actualmoralworthbut have symbolic worth.
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So what, based on people's equalmoralworth, does a commitment to cultural competence require of clinicians as moral agents and evaluators?
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Relatedly, biocentric egalitarianism means that all living things, including humans, plants, animals, and even rivers, mountains, and ecosystems, are of equalmoralworth, of equal intrinsic value.
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However, this view of the intrinsicmoralworthof the criminal process is not shared by all commentators.
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When it comes to the manner of acquisition, however, the issue of control is irrelevant to epistemic status, and, on this view, irrelevant tomoralworthas well.
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