| 单词 | moral sense |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoral sense moral sense n. the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, esp. as an innate faculty of the human mind. ΘΚΠ society > morality > [noun] > moral sense moral sense1711 moral faculty1754 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 41 The taking away the natural Sense of Right and Wrong. [margin] Loss of Moral Sense. 1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. i. 26 (heading) Moral distinctions deriv'd from a moral sense. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty i. 18 The fallibility of what is called the moral sense. 1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 106/1 The term ‘moral sense writers’ is now commonly used to denote a succession of English moralists, of whom Shaftesbury and Hutcheson were the chief. 1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Sept. 55/1 Is the moral sense so thoroughly built into human nature that when one ghetto youth shoots another who has ‘dissed’ him, we should hail this as a triumph for the moral sense? < as lemmas |
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