Wherefore no one questions the fact that it belongs to the perfection of moral good, that the actions of the outward members be controlled by the law of reason.
As regards a Standard of right and wrong, moral good or evil, they recognized nothing but obedience to the laws and customs of society.
The intention ofmoral good or virtue in human acts need not be actual or reflex.
A virtual act of love of God consists in a resolution to direct one's life according to reason, or in a love of the goodness of virtue; for in such an act there is implied a love of the Author and End of moral good.
Thus in the rules of good metaphysics there would have to be no moral evil in Nature; and also for the same reason there would be no moral good either, and all morality would be destroyed.
For perfection includes not only the moral good and the physical good of intelligent creatures, but also the good which is purely metaphysical, and concerns also creatures devoid of reason.
According to the teaching of countless writers of importance', he says, 'there is in nature and in the essence of certain things a moral good or evil that precedes the divine decree.
Thrice blessed is he who, when all is drear and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him and his friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good.
The very notion of moral evil implies a moral good which it contravenes, and a moral law by which it is condemned.
Whatever so-called physical evil is needed to prevent moral evil, or to punish it, or to cure it, or to discipline in moral good, is not really evil.
St. Paul plainly assumes some knowledge and performance on the part of the heathen, and though he denounces their immorality in unsparing terms, he does not affirm that pagan society was so corrupt that it had lost all knowledge of moral good.
But that would destroy it as a moral good; since nothing can be morally good that is not pursued for its own sake.
Moral good is the moral end considered as realised.
Yet the apostle does not actually affirm, nor even imply, that pagan society was so utterly corrupt that it had lost all knowledge of moral good.
In the primitive Indian's conception of a God the idea of moral good has no part.
Many tribes now pray to him, though still clinging obstinately to their ancient superstitions; and with some, as the heathen portion of the modern Iroquois, he is clothed with attributes of moral good.
Nor, when such a belief existed, was the good to be rewarded a moral good, or the evil to be punished a moral evil.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
