But, if this is so, we must give up the sharp separation Kant makes between the moral law and nature, and allow that things in nature can have a moral value.
Here again we have to say that the fact that inclinations viewed merely as inclinations have no moral value, does not show that, relatively to the good will, one may not be better than another.
Those actions that bear the stamp of moral value, so determined, and admitted to be realities, constitute the phaenomenon that lies before us, and which we have to explain.
The absence of all egoistic motives is thus the =Criterion= of an action of moral value.
Only so far as an action springs therefrom, has it moral value; and all conduct that proceeds from any other motive whatever has none.
The church, on the other hand, maintained both the dignity and the moral value of labor.
The motive of his act is a non-volitional conation, an appetite, and has consequently no moral value.
The lack of foresight, which is a characteristic of uncivilised peoples, must prevent them from attaching much moral value to temperance.
On the other hand, any volition may have a moral value.
The theory of evolution makes no contribution at all to these questions of worth or validity or moral value which we have been discussing.
But the controversies of the time centred almost exclusively round two questions: the question of the origin of moral ideas, and the question of the criterion of moral value.
By assigning a magic value to morality they gave a moral value to religion.
In other words, in the diremption of myths which yielded here a natural phenomenon to be explained and there a moral value to be embodied, Platonism attached divinity exclusively to the moral element.
There is something unmistakably illiberal, almost superstitious, in standing on race for its own sake, as if origins and not results were of moral value.
Summary of the content and logic of moral value, 72.
It is customary to argue this principle of impartiality, according to which the merely personal consideration is declared to be irrelevant to the determination of moral value, by a critique of egoism.
Let us now correct our elementary conceptions of value so that they may apply to moral value.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral value" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
