premoral
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- adjective
- /priˈmɔrəl/
- Specialized
- The study examined how premoral instincts can influence behavior before any moral judgment is made.
- premoral evil
- premoral norm
- premoral liberty
Examples
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The upshot of this is that there will be norms that are genuinely moral and norms that are premoral.
Academic text (1990) -
This condition of absolute, premoral liberty lacks two important features of the liberty that exists within a moralized sociality.
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We thus affirm that any abortion is a premoral evil.
Academic text (1990) -
Given my previous analysis for the moral standing of the blastocyst, its destruction would certainly be a premoral evil, but not a moral evil.
Academic text (2001) -
On their own, premoral norms will be inadequate to understanding and evaluating concrete moral situations that are complex.
Academic text (1990) -
Although theories of liberal rights differ among themselves in many important ways, each affirms that some restrictions of premoral liberty are warranted.
Academic text (1990) -
But the self has undergone a kind of premoral education and has acquired a kind of knowledge of what the inevitable consequences and limitations of a purely selfish life will be.
Academic text (1994) -
Premoral norms will be the result of descriptive, common-sense insights into moral experiences that grasp significant but partial aspects of complex moral realities.
Academic text (1990) -
In a premoral state, children often act on instinct rather than understanding right from wrong.
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Animals exhibit premoral responses when they act out of survival rather than ethical considerations.
Antonyms
How Moral
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Premoral comes from the parts pre- meaning 'before' and moral meaning 'right and wrong'. So, premoral describes a stage or behaviour that comes before someone has moral understanding, like very young children who act without judging right from wrong.