Imagination is of its nature nonmoral. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : It was a completely nonmoral problem and involved only judgments as to efficacy. From Dictionary.com.
Full and vivid awareness of relevant nonmoral facts. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging] Reference
A nonmoral fact can be part of what constitutes a reason to perform an action. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Voluntarism] Reference
Moral properties and states of affairs supervene on nonmoral properties and states of affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Voluntarism] Reference
Moral realists have argued that moral disagreements very often derive from disagreement about nonmoral issues. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging] Reference
The intuitive idea is that there can be no differences in moral status without some difference in nonmoral status. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Voluntarism] Reference
And if that is true for Moore-paradoxical moral sentences, it should also go for Moore-paradoxical nonmoral sentences. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
But this position makes it hard to see how justice can be a virtue; for it is hard to find the requisite natural, nonmoral motive for it. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
According to Blackburn, it is not just the simple fact that moral properties supervene on nonmoral properties that needs to be explained. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
This is an entirely unfamiliar phenomenon: nowhere else do we encounter a merely causal connection between a nonmoral fact and a moral one. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Voluntarism] Reference
It is generally stipulated that she is in possession of all the nonmoral facts that are relevant to the judgments she has to make (Firth 1952). From Wordnik.com. [Impartiality] Reference
On their view, while moral disagreements might sometimes be traceable to disagreements about nonmoral matters of fact, this will not always be true. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Realism] Reference
More generally, there is no valid inference from nonmoral premises to moral conclusions unless one relies, at least surreptitiously, on a moral premise. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Realism] Reference
But since sympathy with the public interest itself seems neither nonmoral nor inherent in human nature, this claim redescribes the problem rather than solves it. From Wordnik.com. [Kant and Hume on Morality] Reference
But they do show that granting the inferential gap between nonmoral claims and moral claims does not establish that we can have no evidence for the moral claims. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Realism] Reference
Blackburn thinks that we require such an explanation even if there are metaphysically or nomically necessary connections between moral and nonmoral terms or properties. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
Nor is it just that appropriate moral predication must supervene on nonmoral predication, to put the point in a way that does not beg the question against non-cognitivism. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
As further support for these claims about the phenomenology of moral motivation, Shafer-Landau has appealed to nonmoral cases in which motivation seems to follow from belief. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Motivation] Reference
On this view, one cannot make the initial discovery of moral properties by inference from nonmoral premises using reason alone; rather, one requires some input from sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Hume's Moral Philosophy] Reference
This marks a real contrast with nonmoral claims since the fact that a person makes some such claim sincerely seems never to entail anything in particular about her motivations. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Realism] Reference
David Hume seems to have been, in effect, pressing this, point long before Moore, when he argued that no moral conclusion follows non-problematically from nonmoral premises (Hume 1739). From Wordnik.com. [Moral Realism] Reference
The basic idea here is that conditionals with moral antecedents and nonmoral consequents should, together with the moral judgment in the antecedent, license acceptance of the consequent. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
It is of course possible that full and vivid awareness of the nonmoral facts might motivate the sort of change in southern attitudes envisaged by the (at least the northern) moral realist. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging] Reference
The answers to moral questions cannot be found in nature's factuality in any case, so why not take the "cold bath" of recognizing nature as nonmoral, and not constructed to match our hopes?. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Fundamentalism] Reference
Prospero's character is too complex, his relations with Ariel, Caliban, and the others too fraught, to be mapped comfortably onto a stable distinction between moral and nonmoral motivations. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Uses of Power] Reference
But this is of little help for the expedient under consideration, since the disagreement-in-nonmoral-fact response apparently requires that one can disentangle factual and moral disagreement. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging] Reference
It is rather to explain how honoring the supervenience constraint can be a requirement of linguistic competence, even while there is no analytic entailment from nonmoral claims to moral claims. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
Take a version of expressivism which says that a moral judgment that such and such an action is wrong predicates a nonmoral property of that action and at the same time expresses disapproval of that property. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
In this century, R.M. Hare, in his earlier books (The Language of M.rals, Freedom and Reason) regarded moral judgments as those judgments that override all nonmoral judgments and that the person would universalize. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Morality] Reference
(or failure to treat) in accordance with innocent suffering, being a person, being beautiful, etc., doesn't really seem to be nonmoral. From Wordnik.com. [Desert] Reference
Their object is to secure blessing, and the blessing is often, perhaps generally, of a nonmoral character -- wealth, children, triumph over enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
When we do not at all understand the cause of an action, whether a crime, a good action, or even one that is simply nonmoral, we ascribe a greater amount of freedom to it. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
A nonmoral sense; between the morally good life and. From Wordnik.com. [EDUCATION] Reference
A crime, a good action, or even one that is simply nonmoral, we ascribe a greater amount of freedom to it. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Suppose that we continue to interpret supervenience intuitively as the no-difference-in-moral-properties-without-some-difference-in-nonmoral-properties thesis. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Voluntarism] Reference
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