词汇 | amoral |
释义 | amoral adjective uk /ˌeɪˈmɒr.əl/ us /ˌeɪˈmɔːr.əl/ without moral principles: 放荡的 Humans, he argues, are amoral and what guides them is not any sense of morality but an instinct for survival.他认为,人类无德,其行为不是出于道德感,而是出于生存的本能。 Compare immoral moraladjective Morally wrong and evil abhorrent abhorrently amorality anomie antichrist dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness enormity evil nefariousness no goodidiom no more Mr Nice Guyidiom non-ethical obscene trespass turpitude unconscionable unconscionably unethical Related wordamorality amoral | American Dictionaryamoral adjective[ not gradable ] us/eɪˈmɔr·əl, -ˈmɑr-/ without moral principles: Business is an amoral activity focused coldly on success. Examples of amoralamoral However, he fails to consider the behavior of other species - do other species experience free will and if not, are they amoral and psychologically unhealthy? Such a society transforms individuals who in a state of nature were amoral, lawless, atomized units into moral beings. Its aim, amoral and expedient, is to ensure that oratory should persuade. We consider the strife that has been mounting among bioethicists to be amoral, destructive, and self-destructive. Such dichotomies included good\\evil, capitalist\\communist, moral\\amoral, religious\\irreligious, barbaric\\civilized, imperialist\\liberationist. This is wholly in keeping with a framework of naturalization that was materialist without being determinist or amoral. But once that choice has been made, and once its consequences have been taken, there is something amoral, not immoral, which is conceded to art. But the best evidence principle that he recognizes is certainly not amoral, at least not when it is applied to adversarial adjudication. The third element in the revisionist method, apart from an amoral relativism and an apologetic tendency, is the application of social science technique. The hope for development, for gradual change, for successive normalisation was a distraction from the system's structural defects and the amoral basis of the regime. However, by virtue of the fact that they are exceptions, they further highlight the generally amoral discussion of these barriers in the literature. It should always be kept in mind that the complexity of sound structure's emergent behaviour is amoral and has no intrinsic value. Early modern nature could serve as an explicit source of social values because openly value-laden; modern nature, only as an implicit source because amoral. Modern nature abounded in bitter revelations about the illusions of ethics and social reform, for nature was ruthlessly amoral. The occult may be best described as an amoral force which necessarily belongs to power and prestige as well as being an important leveller. 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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