There are no similar difficulties in the way of modifying the Ideal of Moral Excellence--as distinguished from the dictates of Moral Duty--in order to render it more perfectly felicific.
And yet it is often needful to remind even Christian people of this great truth: that no change of outward circumstances can ever bring with it a relaxation of moral duty, or make that lawful for us which in its own nature is wrong.
The principle underlying both was, that when a ceremonial obligation comes into collision with a moral duty, the lesser obligation is to give place to the heavier.
The keeping of the Sabbath free from all work, and the appropriation of the shewbread to the use of the priests alone, were but ceremonial obligations; the preservation of life was a moral duty.
Every valid vow obliges to fulfillment, for it is a promise, and loyalty to promises is a moral duty.
Compensation for services bestowed according to contract is a legal duty, and the debtor can be compelled to pay; but thankfulness for gifts or other benefits is only a moral duty, and generally laws do not take account of ingratitude.
The proper care of the body and of health is not merely a thing next to godliness; it is a moral duty, and so a part of godliness.
From this as well as from many other incidents we ought to realize that expediencies have often to be weighed against one another and that it is proper for us to add this fourth division in the discussion of moral duty.
All these professions are occupied with the search after truth; but to be drawn by study away from active life is contrary to moral duty.
In all communities where vice and hypocrisy are sustained by the authority of custom, eccentricity is a moral duty.
Besides, it provides for the performance of the worship of God, which is confessedly a moral duty; while the satisfaction it yields to the conscience of every man, is a sufficient indication of its parity with other moral precepts.
Thus, for instance, the external worship of God is a moral duty, though no particular mode of it be so.
It is clear, swearing is a moral duty, and so material, that oftentimes it is used for the whole worship of God, Deut.
An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food as a Moral Duty.
Immanuel Kant, the founder of critical philosophy, taught, in opposition to this view, the gospel of moral duty, and Scharnhorst grasped the idea of universal military service.
It is in itself the greatest blessing which man knows, and ill betide the nation which regards it no longer as a moral duty, but as the necessary means of earning a livelihood and paying for amusements.
Accordingly it is a moral duty of the State to remain loyal to its own peculiar function as guardian and promoter of all higher interests.
To treat free laborers badly and unfairly, is universally inculcated as a moral duty, and the selfishness of man's nature prompts him to the most rigorous performance of this cannibalish duty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral duty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
