878 examples of ethical in sentences

4. Compare the abstract statement "Truths and high ethical principles are received by various men in various ways" with the concrete presentation of the same idea in Appendix 3. Which expression of the thought would be the more easily understood by the average person?

To claim for it the verbal accuracy and the legal wariness of a mere contract is equally at war with common sense and the facts of the case; and even were it not so, the party to a bond who should attempt to escape its ethical obligation by a legal quibble of construction would be put in Coventry by all honest men.

These temptations had been no more of a disturbance to his ethical and spiritual nature than the academic honors, the financial successes, the numerous editions that had been his.

If the philosophy of Hellas be the most explicit witness to her ethical development, her poetry is the most eloquent.

But enough here if I have succeeded in pointing out that in the great poet with whom we are concerned there is an ethical as well as a poetical and historical interest, supplying one more reason against neglect of his legacy of song.

The contrast which the New Testament presents when compared with the Old, according to the ecclesiastical view of the matter, is just that existing between my ethical system and the moral philosophy of Europe.

But if that is to be accounted a valid reason against suicide, it involves the recognition of asceticism; that is to say, it is valid only from a much higher ethical standpoint than has ever been adopted by moral philosophers in Europe.

According to Schopenhauer, moral freedomthe highest ethical aimis to be obtained only by a denial of the will to live.

But co-existing with this physical impossibility, there seems to me to be an ethical impossibility of an analogous nature, and producing the same effect.

The virtue of his writings consists in their wholesome ethical quality, in their solid health.

The fact is worth remark, showing as it does, that ethical laws are common both to dogs and men; and that with both a single deliberate violation of the conscience loosens all.

It will be impossible for us, after the War, to do what we have done so widely hitherto: proclaim one range of ethical ideals and standards, and live to something widely different in practice.

History is filled with illustrations of this relativity of ethical standards.

If there is truth in the view, we would better take account of it and radically revise our ethical philosophy.

That it is also compatible with an atheistic or pantheistic conception of the universe is an objection which, being shared by all physical science, and some ethical or moral, cannot specially be urged against Darwin's system.

A MORAL AND BENEFICENT CREATIONHIS WORSHIP WAS ELEVATINGMORAL CONDITION OF NATIVE SOCIETIES BEFORE THE CONQUESTPROGRESS IN THE DEFINITION OF THE IDEA OF GOD IN PERU, MEXICO, AND YUCATANERRONEOUS STATEMENTS ABOUT THE MORALS OF THE NATIVESEVOLUTION OF THEIR ETHICAL PRINCIPLES.

He was interested in ethical speculations, but on the practical side, in the application to life, not in the philosophy on which it might be grounded.

It angered her, not from any ethical motive, but because of her brother's part in it.

To inquire how far the bad effects of this deficiency have been mitigated in practice, or to what extent the moral beliefs of mankind have been vitiated or made uncertain by the absence of any distinct recognition of an ultimate standard, would imply a complete survey and criticism of past and present ethical doctrine.

His whole physical formation seemed to become "fusile" with the fire of his ethical passion, and his eloquence flowed like a stream of molten lava, carrying all before it in its irresistible rush, glorious as well as terrible, and fertilizing while it subdued.

Ethical systems and legal ideals.

The ethical element has been absent, and it was through no fault of the black man.

The religion of the poor whites in the South is mechanical, and unintelligently doctrinal; the religion of the blacks is emotional and fantastic; and the religion of both blacks and whites is lacking in the ethical element.

Before the Southern problem will be solved, a new stock must take the place of those who were reared in slavery; the old traditions must fade, and education, and an ethical type of Christianity, must do their work.

His sermons are ethical in their matter from a Christian standpoint, carefully reasoned, and free from ornament, but fearless and uncompromising (1632-1704).

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