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moral authority

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meanings of moraland authority


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moral
adjective
uk /ˈmɒr.əl/ us /ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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authority
noun
uk /ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/ us /əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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Examples of moral authority


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They had already gained moralauthority among large sections of the city's population.
He must combine moralauthority over his fellow tribesmen with the ability to deliver benefits and services to his followers.
The moralauthority to govern creates a normative presumption that decisions will be accepted.
At the second stage, he draws implications from this according of rights, including the moral authority of the political community to recognize and enforce them.
They do have at least prima facie moralauthority, but that authority must be balanced by other symbolic meanings and moral factors.
Ordinarily they command the legal and moralauthority to conscript citizens in the interest of legitimate national defense.
Partly, it was in the nature of a moralauthority which the elites increasingly enjoyed among the city's populace.
I shall discuss the ' special moralauthority ' this implies below.
Others may appreciate the appropriateness or even the necessity of action while recognizing that they lack the moralauthority to do so.
I do not think it any longer has the moralauthority to do so.
Once this option ceased to exist, no single institution emerged with the moralauthority and material resources to enforce customary kinship, religious, and civic obligations.
Somehow, these imaginings then endow themselves with moralauthority and institutional support.
Although not specifically ' political ', women's religious and ritual activities were power-laden in that they reflected and expressed moralauthority.
So the elites had to share the moralauthority with the government.
The elites thought that this would earn them social prestige and moralauthority among the city's population.
Any conduct that seems to place the physician's selfinterest above that of the patient's reduces the respect and moralauthority claimed by the profession.
This permissionbased source for moralauthority does not appeal to any particular ranking of goods or of right-making principles.
For these men, then, their moralauthority and presentation is directly tied to their company and their position within it.
Finally, the concept of special moralauthority is inconsistent with the consequentialist principle that the action which produces the most value is obligatory.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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