When Bentham says that "Motives are the causes of intentions," he states the fact, and also reveals motive as the proper final object of moral judgment.
Every act is potential subject-matter of moral judgment, for it strengthens or weakens some habit which influences whole classes of judgments.
Here, as in the formulation of his conception of the ideal, religious imagery helped Plato to find a more objective statement for the conception of a moral judgment and a moral character.
Moral judgment is also entirely uninfluenced by consideration of the advantageous or disadvantageous results for the agent or the spectator.
We may briefly mention, in conclusion, his observations on the irregularities of moral judgment.
From this modest germ is developed by a progressive growth the wide-spreading tree of morality: moral judgment, the moral imperative with its religious sanction, and ethical character.
He says, if a moral judgment be no real judgment, but only a feeling, morals have no foundation but the arbitrary structure of the mind; there are no immutable moral distinctions; and no evidence for the moral character of the Deity.
He adverts, in a strain of eloquent indignation, to the objection grounded on differences of men's moral judgment.
It happens not unfrequently that difficult and protracted deliberations are necessary to a moral judgment.
Voluntary external action is not external only, but has also an internal side; and not whether I succeed in performing a certain action or am prevented in the middle of it, but whether I willed it, is of importance to moral judgment.
A criticism of the use, in ethical theory, of a continually changing standard of moral judgment, must concern the more fundamental idea of a continually established equilibrium.
The movement of the body is not an object of moral judgment, as are not, also, the outer results of the action as such.
His analysis of moral judgment, 76 Smyrna, persecution of the Christians at, i.
But two distinct and opposite explanations have been given of the above precepts, presenting entirely different standards of moral judgment.
Has God given, or does our own reason give us, a standard of moral judgment of which no one can form a conception, or give us a definition?
It has already been noted in general that only personal beings can be moral agents or become, in what they are and do, objects of moral judgment.
In the stage of moral evolution in which custom and authority are the controlling principles of conduct, moral judgment in the proper sense of self-conscious, critical, and reconstructive valuation of purposes is wanting.
The more a moral judgment is influenced by reflection, the more it scrutinises the character which manifests itself in that individual piece of conduct by which the judgment is occasioned, p.
Whilst not affirming the actual existence of any specific emotion in the mind of the person judging or of anybody else, the predicate of a moral judgment attributes to the subject a tendency to arouse an emotion.
Hence a moral judgment is true or false according as its subject has or has not that tendency which the predicate attributes to it.
Conscience' is the accepted popular term for the faculty of moral judgment, as applied to the acts and motives of the person judging; and we most commonly think of the dictates of conscience as relating to particular actions.
The great majority of our acts are too trivial to merit any notice, such as is implied in a moral judgment.
We sometimes speak of moral judgment, sometimes of moral feeling.
Obnoxious "subjectivity" of moral judgment is due to the fact that the immediate or esthetic quality swells and swells and displaces the thought of the active potency which gives activity its moral quality.
Their operation is not a matter of moral judgment.
Acton felt that this was to destroy the very bases of moral judgment and to open the way to a boundless scepticism.
He demanded a code of moral judgmentindependent of place and time, and not merely relative to a particular civilisation.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral judgment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
