premoral

premoral

(priːˈmɒrəl)
adj
(Psychology) relating to the stage of development before one acquires moral responsibility
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The roots of compassion as a premoral unpredictable and disruptive experience that opens up and connects human beings is to be avoided for its uncontrollable and irrational nature.
Here I will simply raise a question that pertains to premoral, pretheoretical common sense, and to the social imaginary as an interpretation of the world: Does economic mediation of a society's relationship to the cosmos and physical nature impact religious convictions about creation and the Creator?
By this Wojtyia's means that action has a premoral but intrinsic value because it is performed by a person in accordance with the properties of transcendence and integration that shape the structure of that action.
Gene Ahner draws the attention to another aspect, the one that we have got accustomed to perceiving the economic activity and business in a strictly technical sense, as a mechanism which takes place outside the "premoral or impersonal" human area, forgetting that "business is essentially a human activity"; "business needs to be put into a larger context of human living".
What the so-called proportionalists have in common "is the insistence that causing certain disvalues (nonmoral, premoral evils) in our conduct does not by that very fact make the action morally wrong, as certain traditional formulations supposed.
The thorough contractarian procedure would take us back to a premoral "state of nature" in which the rules being considered for adoption are not yet in place.
If he does not choose to live, nature will take its course." (22) As is expressed in the latter quotation, the choice to live is a premoral, pre-rational choice.
La aprehension de la realidad no es simplemente "premoral" sino "protomoral".
Lear's excesses, and his power to enact them, bring Lear closer to its premoral fairy-tale origins, where wish and fear become reality.
Maritain further speaks of the need for "premoral training, a point which deals not with morality strictly speaking, but with the preparation and first tilling of the soil thereof " (p.