They seem to hav inverted the foundation of moral obligation, in supposing the moral law to derive its propriety and fitness originally from the wil of Deity, rather than from the nature of things.
A rich man lies under a moral obligation to communicate to those in necessity a share of his superfluities.
The difficulties, that occur to us, in supposing a moral obligation to attend promises, we either surmount or elude.
As a promise is supposed to be a bond or security already in use, and attended with a moral obligation, it is to be considered as the original sanction of government, and as the source of the first obligation to obedience.
If we thought, that promises had no moral obligation, we never should feel any inclination to observe them.
Blackburn What Is the Foundation of Moral Obligation?
Edwards (the son) against my views as to the foundation of moral obligation.
To the feeling of dependence he has added the consciousness of moral obligation, which he imagines supplies the deficiency.
By this consciousness of moral obligation "we are compelled to assume the existence of a moral Deity, and to regard the absolute standard of right and wrong as constituted by the nature of that Deity.
Great Britain is under a moral obligationto continue to support Land Purchase with her national credit, which is indispensable.
Lord Durham was doubly right; in his prophecy of the closer union liberty would promote, and in elementary law which he laid down, of moral obligation which, whatever the result, he held superior to dynastic calculations.
Whereas, a true science accepts God as the first fact in ethics; his attributes as the primary standard of the moral distinction; his will as the fountain of moral obligation.
The pressure which they bring to bear is felt as a sense of moral obligation.
There has been much dispute as to whether the sense of duty or moral obligation can or cannot be analyzed.
It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he should do it whether he will or not.
But if a person has a controul over the condition upon which the promise is made, to realise it or not, he lies under a moral obligation to use every endeavour to fulfil it.
And no less clearly we distinguish between the idea of being under a moral obligation to do a thing, and the idea of being merely under a legal obligation to do it.
To say that I am under a moral obligation to do a certain thing is, I think, clearly to say the same thing as what we commonly express by saying that I ought to do it, or that it is my duty to do it.
The particular moral idea which I propose to pick out for discussion is the one which I have called above the idea of moral obligation--the idea of being morally bound to act in a particular way on a particular occasion.
That is to say, the idea of moral obligation is identical with the idea of the moral "ought" and with the idea of duty.
So Hume insists emphatically on the "reality of moral obligation"; but is found to mean no more by this than the real existence of the likes and dislikes that human beings feel for each other's qualities.
But in fact the difference between intuitionists and utilitarians as to the method of determining the particulars of the moral code was complicated with a more fundamental disagreement as to the very meaning of "moral obligation.
But we know that they are not treated like rational beings, and that oppression almost entirely obliterates their sense of moral obligation to God or man.
That the affections and propensities (sometimes called the heart) are the principal seat of depravity--and these are often arrayed in direct hostility to the convictions of the judgment and the feelings of moral obligation.
False views as to the reality and grounds of moral obligation weaken, vitiate and corrupt life.
Over almost the entire broad field of moral obligation there is a consentient, clear and consistent judgment by the moral sense of man in all ages and places.
Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
There is no case of moral obligation in which some secondary principle is not involved; and if only one, there can seldom be any real doubt which one it is, in the mind of any person by whom the principle itself is recognized.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral obligation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
