WordNet
n. the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; "the Puritan ethic"; "a person with old-fashioned values" [syn: ethic, value-system, value orientation]
the principle that conduct should be moral
Usage examples of "moral principle".
Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money.
In such cases, as we do not call anything justice which is not a virtue, we usually say, not that justice must give way to some other moral principle, but that what is just in ordinary cases is, by reason of that other principle, not just in the particular case.
It shows how necessary was the care of the Creator in making the moral principle so much a part of our constitution as that no errors of reasoning or of speculation might lead us astray from its observance in practice.
Whatever is old -- a man, a building, a moral principle -- is regarded not as established but as obsolete.
When the author is exhorting his audience with talk of moral principle, he makes their hair stand on end, and when he sets out to move them with accounts of sexual passion, he drives them wild.
She had faith in him and knew that his goodness, his own faith, his courage, his commitment to clear moral principle, and his determination would carry him through.
They also led to more willingness to work, and work hard, and a greater trust in moral principle and the source of those principles than ever before.
I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an extensive acquaintance with books.