But, when we contemplate man as a moral being, new relations open on our view, and these are of mightier import.
Man is to be contemplated as an intellectual, and as a moral being.
As we cannot distinguish between motives, we rank all actions of a certain class as moral, when they are performed by a moral being.
A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them.
In fact, the destiny of man is not to accomplish isolated moral acts, but to be a moral being.
But as a moral being he cannot possibly rest satisfied with a political condition forced upon him by necessity, and only calculated for that condition; and it would be unfortunate if this did satisfy him.
A man is a moral beingin proportion as he can enter into, and realize, the feelings, sentiments, and opinions of others.
Thus did the Great Teacher provide for the wants of man, considered as a moral being.
Physical philosophers, however, work at a great advantage in developing an ape into a moral being, compared with the mythologists who developed a Jew of the year 30 into a Christ.
To begin with, God is certainly capable of taking an interest in man's welfare, for He is not only a Personal Being, but also a Moral Being.
Man's moral sense of right and wrong; which enables him to distinguish the quality of acts, and makes him a moral being.
Now we will call a being who is thus able to distinguish the quality of acts a moral being.
Man is therefore a moral being, having this moral sense, as it is called, of distinguishing right from wrong.
But we reply that to foreknow how a moral being will act is no more impossible than to know how a moral being in given circumstances would act.
Yet holiness, as an attribute of God, has rights peculiar to itself; it determines the attitude of the affections; it more than any other faculty constitutes God's moral being.
They belong, as we have seen, to man as a moral being, and nothing can divest him of them but the destruction of his nature.
Man's rights belong to him as a Moral Being, as capable of perceiving moral distinctions, as a subject of moral obligation.
That slavery should be most unpropitious to the slave as a moral being will be farther apparent, if we consider that his condition is throughout a Wrong, and that consequently it must tend to unsettle all his notions of duty.
We cannot therefore assume that in our final purpose we have not merely a moral ground for admitting a final purpose of creation (as an effect), but also for admitting a moral Being as the original ground of creation.
Now of man (and so of every rational creature in the World) as a moral being it can no longer be asked: why (quem in finem) he exists?
Now what I especially wish here to remark, is this;--that the progress of man as a moral being consists in a constant extension of the Idea into the region of Facts.
By such means there is a constant progress of man as a moral being.
It is therefore highly probable that the Creator will adopt means for elevating the moral being whom He has created, and that He will effect this by acting, not on matter, but on mind.
God, therefore, must be a moral being, and a person, for moral attributes can only be conceived of as belonging to a being who is possessed of personality.
Nature; [175] the intellectual qualities of man make God an intellectual being, the moral, a moral being.
And now let us suppose ourselves convinced, at least for the sake of argument, that man will always believe in himself as a moral being, and that he will, under no compulsion, let this belief go.
What we shall now see is that, by the same arguments, it will prove him to be not a moral being at all; that it will prove not only that he has no rule by which to direct his will, but also that he has no will to direct.
Our moral sense, it is true, will no more be shocked by the conception of an eternal discord in things, but we shall be confronted by a fatalism that will allow to us no moral being at all.
They can only entertain the question of its existence because its existence is essential to man as a moral being.
We find him accordingly in the daily habit of mentally distinguishing this person from that, as a moral being, and of assigning to each a separate character; and this not voluntarily, but simply because he cannot avoid it.
It is in this recognition of the State as a moral being, with powers of determination similar to the powers of the individual mind, that the significance of the General Will ultimately lies.
Conscience is a principle which God has placed in man’s moral being to teach him what is right and what is wrong.
Pure and holy meditations are an excellent means for the culture and refinement of man’s moral being.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral being" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
