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Example sentences for "moral goodness"

  • But certain conditions are required for moral goodness, both in those who ask for judgment and in those who pass judgment.

  • This is true friendship, because it is unselfish and has the highest motive; it is naturally lasting, since it is built on moral goodness, the real good of an intelligent being (Ecclus.

  • And hence I conceive, we have to distinguish the sense of beauty in conduct from the sense of moral goodness.

  • If religion is moral goodness, a religious organization must be an embodiment of its principles, a practical exemplification of its maxims, and a scheme in measures and policy adapted to extend the observance of its obligations.

  • Physical goodness may be in an object which hath no moral goodness; and this may contain a capacity of moral goodness: and each of them is amiable according to its nature and degree.

  • I mean to say that as Adam sought a vain fig-leaf covering, rather than the imitation of the Deity in moral goodness, so his posterity have ever since been fond of running after fig-leaf substitutes.

  • Well, sir, as I was saying, not only the Jews and Heathens, but the Christians also have their fig-leaf substitutes for Moral Goodness.

  • I think not, sir; I look on faith but as a mean to beget that moral goodness, which, to me, appears to be the only qualification for Heaven.

  • The neo-Kantian religion ascribes the supreme place to moral goodness as the directing principle of every reasonable will.

  • We may admire it as the most beautiful unfolding of that nature, but we cannot applaud it as the virtue or moral goodness of Adam.

  • The first argument is designed to show, that unless true virtue, or moral goodness, had been planted in the nature of man by the finger of God, it could never have found its way into the world.

  • Such a pose is nearer akin to hypocrisy than to generosity or moral goodness.

  • Now, of the four divisions which we have made of the essential idea of moral goodness, the first, consisting in the knowledge of truth, touches human nature most closely.

  • But similarly there are degrees of moral goodness.

  • Sidenote: Ethics Deals with the Most General Conditions of Moral Goodness.

  • Moral goodness: the fulfilment of an economy of interests, 15.

  • It is proper, therefore, to associate pleasure with goodness; and happiness, or a more constant and pervasive pleasure, with the higher forms of moral goodness.

  • But there has persisted from the dawn of ethical theory a misconception concerning the place of pleasure in moral goodness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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