This eminent writer is decidedly opposed to the doctrine of a moral sense or moral principle; but the system which he proposes to substitute in its place must be acknowledged to be liable to considerable objections.
A moral principle, such as that of chastity, of justice, of the golden rule, gives the agent a basis for looking at and examining a particular question that comes up.
But the moral fanatic does about as much evil in the world as the man of no moral principle.
A moral principle, then, is not a command to act or forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, and not by the rule as such.
And if such a talented and logical mind could find no reason, consistency, or moral principle in the dogmas of orthodoxy, we may readily ask, Who can?
What confidence, we ask, can be placed in men, either for truthfulness or as moral teachers, who are thus represented by their own historians and their own friends to be almost destitute of moral principle?
And without it there could be no morality, no moral principle or accountability, while man exists upon the present animal plane.
But among his gifts to education and citizenship none can be made to mean more than the simple proposition that natural law is as sacred as a moral principle.
Never was there an invasion of any country worse than this, in point of moral principle, since the invasion of the West Indies by the Buccaneers, or that of the United States by Captain Kidd.
The old gentleman is right; 'Help yourself' is no moral principle.
Why do you require all the Jews, collectively and individually, to stand on the side of moral principle?
But there is a moral principle involved in 'Help yourself,'" interposed Eric.
It was pleasant and encouraging to see men ready to sacrifice their old party attachments and their private interests, oftentimes, for the sake of a moral principle.
I do not mean to say that there was no moral principle in the other parties--I know better.
What power in the world is greater, controlled by moral principle?
In the one case the inconsistency arises from hysterical and immoral passion, in the other from a moral principle.
A man whose whole life is governed by moral principle has a constituency in the judgment of all honest people and may be said to represent mankind rather than a party.
The policy of the United States, with reference to foreign nations, has always been founded upon the moral principle of natural law--Peace with all mankind.
I congratulate you on the evidence there exhibited of your attachment to moral principle, in your co-operation in that great movement which is promoting the happiness and elevation of man in every quarter of the globe.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral principle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
