You who speak of a 'moral instinct' as if it were some separate endowment opposed to reason-man's reason is his moral faculty.
She is a creature devoid of moral faculties, and with the propensity to murder strongly developed.
Benjamin Rush wrote in 1812 about individuals with an apparent "perversion of the moral faculties" which he saw as a sign of innate defective organization.
Why should this principle be any less true for the development of the intellectual and moral faculties of man than for the other operations of nature?
For they have discovered evidence of the existence of what Hauser sometimes calls "a moral organ" and sometimes "a moral faculty."
But in an art world where ambiguity reigns supreme, such a forthright attack on the viewer's moral faculties is oddly refreshing.
It included arguments that mental and moral faculties were not unique to humans, but resulted from expansion of brain size during this ascent.
But Aristotle said that no separation exists between an individual's moral and cognitive faculties.
The work discusses man's nature from the point of views of his intellectual, ecstatic and moral faculties.
He believed that the "mental & moral faculties are essentially... the same kind in animals & ourselves".