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Example sentences for "moral sense"

  • Moral sense--not recognised by Plato in either of the dialogues.

  • But what is quite decisive is the fact that these two words, which occur with such extraordinary frequency, are never found in a physical, but always in a moral sense only.

  • Even the root צדק never occurs in a physical sense, but always, only in a moral sense.

  • If these unhappy men were aware of the frightful event that then preoccupied all Paris, they only retained a glimmering of moral sense.

  • This was one of the six ambulances I was appointed to visit during the siege, to administer religious aid and awaken the moral sense of the soldiers who were sick or wounded.

  • They had too slight a dash of moral sense to be preoccupied with questions of honor and propriety.

  • We should like to know what acuminated elevation of the cuticle of the tongue represented “conscience or moral sense,” as a separate and distinct faculty!

  • By conscience, or moral sense, is meant that faculty by which we discern the moral quality of actions, and by which we are capable of certain affections in respect to this quality.

  • This faculty of moral sense puts us in mind of Dr.

  • Hutcheson, Francis, his doctrine of a "moral sense," i.

  • His superstitious fears, 367 Calvinists: tendency of the Supralapsarian to deny the existence of a moral sense, i.

  • So far as the facts of moral experience in such cases are concerned, the "moral sense" theory appears to give a correct description.

  • If no moral sense of right and wrong is found among them, no sins acknowledged, nor future punishments feared, it must follow that temporal welfare and personal advantage are all that remains worth praying or fasting for.

  • The necessity of law must be felt before it would avail; their ignorance made manifest before truth could be introduced; a moral sense of justice and of their depravity implanted before moral rectitude can be expected.

  • To make this idea reasonable to them they would first have to be taught that they are guilty of crime and a correct knowledge of the attributes of the Great Mystery, together with a moral sense of justice.

  • But quite as important is the gradual development of an inward guide--those very various secondary impulses and inhibitions which we hump together because of their common function and call the moral sense or conscience.

  • Of these "senses" that which plays the most important part in Hutcheson's ethical system is the "moral sense.

  • We should do all we can to help others in a moral sense.

  • To do good to all and harm to none in a bodily or physical sense is indeed good, but to do good to all and harm to none in a moral sense is much better.

  • We should do harm to none in a moral sense, because we would have none do us harm.

  • Joyce's moral sense was an unknown quantity in her present development.

  • Not merely in the other's shocking lack of moral sense--but in very essence.

  • Seventy-seven per cent of their young prisoners, say the managers of the state reformatory, have no moral sense, or next to none.

  • There was no moral sense to be got out of the thing, for there was little sense of any kind in it.

  • The doctrine of the "moral sense" attempts to answer the question.

  • An effort is made, however, to supply this defect by means of the reflex affections called the "moral sense," to which he ascribes an oversight over the other affections and their resultant actions.

  • Here, besides lack of moral sense, there is something more, the lack of common sense.

  • It is a series of empty leaves on which tediousness is hand in hand with lack of moral sense, it is a pale picture full of falsehood--such is "Le Docteur Pascal.

  • This doctrine conducts also to perfect atrophy of moral sense.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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