单词 | moral law |
释义 | > as lemmasmoral law a. Designating the body of requirements to which an action must conform in order to be right or virtuous; (also) designating a particular requirement of this kind. Frequently in moral law.When applied to laws often contrasted with ‘positive’ or ‘instituted’ laws, the obligation of which depends solely on the fact that they have been imposed by a rightful authority (cf. natural law n.). In early use chiefly applied to those parts of the Mosaic law which enunciate moral rather than ceremonial or juridical precepts and principles. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [adjective] > Mosaic dispensation > moral part of moralc1449 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [adjective] > Mosaic dispensation moral law1551 Mosaical1562 lawish1564 legal1591 Mosaic1632 Moschical1662 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > Mosaic dispensation > moral part of moral law1551 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > moral principles or moral law moralitiesc1400 moral law1609 ethic1659 philosophy1727 natural law1899 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 13 (MED) Doom of natural resoun..is clepid ‘moral law of kinde’. a1450 (a1397) Prol. Old Test. (Harl. 1666) in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (1850) 3 The old testament is departid..in to moral comaundementis, iudicials, and cerimonyals. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Eijv The morall law standeth for euer,..The Iudiciall law is next, the which..we be not bound to obserue as the Israelites ware. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 183 If Helen then be wife to Sparta's King..these morrall [1623 Morall] lawes Of nature and of nations, speake alowd To haue her back returnd. View more context for this quotation 1640 W. Prynne Lord Bishops viii. sig. Hiijv If the Prelates shall pronounce the 4th Commandement not to be Morall for the sanctifying of a Seventh day. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 15 I think it will be hard to instance any one moral Rule. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. i. 157 The moral Law is..interwoven into our very Nature. 1784 E. Allen Reason v. §2. 193 Nor is it possible that the Jews, who adhere to the law of Moses, should be under greater obligation to the moral law, than the Japannese; or the Christians than the Chinese. 1796 J. Maxcy Disc. Atonem. i. 8 The laws given to the Israelites were of three kinds—moral, ceremonial, and forensic. 1876 L. Stephen Hist. Eng. Thought 18th Cent. II. ix. 5 Hobbes..audaciously identified the moral with the positive law. 1927 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 32 736 The same forces which co-operate to create the characteristic social organization and the accepted moral order of a given society or social group determine at the same time..the character of the individuals who compose that society. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization vi. 185 The effective standard of judgement..has appeared to be the recognition of offences against a moral code of behaviour. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 May 16/2 There is an engaging search for a specific historic link to the followers of the seventeenth-century Ranter Ludowick Muggleton, with their..furious rejections of the Mosaic Moral Law. < as lemmas |
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