nonmoral
- adjective
- /nɒnˈmɔːrəl/
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no moral
- Rather than directly prove transcendental freedom, he instead provides an indirect deduction of it through an appeal to an independent, nonmoral "third cognition" alongside freedom and the moral law.
- independent and nonmoral
Examples
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With the constructivist, Kant can say that there is no outside or exterior of morality through which its claims can be independently authenticated on strictly nonmoral terms.
Academic text (2017) -
On Friedrich Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" (1873).
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Realists consider war to be a nonmoral activity and argue that self-interest, rather than ethical reflections, dominates decisions to resort to war.
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For Kant, then, the allegation of question-begging is misplaced because morality admits of no possible independent, nonmoral justification.
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The label "positive" implies that the facts are meant to be nonmoral facts or what Mark Greenberg calls "descriptive facts," to be contrasted with moral or "value facts." 110
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In order to mitigate the charge of circularity or question-begging, the bindingness of the moral law needs to be accepted as both legitimate and incapable of an independent, nonmoral justification.
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"By the exercise of a partly nonmoral virtu, the innovator imposes form upon fortuna: that is to say, upon the sequence of happenings in time disordered by his own act."
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The second remark to section 7 further specifies this compulsory force of practical reason as "an internal but intellectual constraint Zwang" on action absolutely opposed to nonmoral motives generated by the empirical faculty of desire.
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Realists view war as a nonmoral activity focused on self-interest rather than ethical concerns.
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In discussions about ethics, we must sometimes differentiate between moral and nonmoral considerations.
Synonyms
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Not thinking about right or wrong when acting
Not thinking about whether something is right or wrong
Antonyms
How Moral
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonmoral is made of non- 'not' and moral 'right and wrong'. So, nonmoral means something that is not about questions of right and wrong.