The hypothesis of a native moral capacity can still do explanatory work.

FORBES: Morality: Nature or Culture?

In a somewhat cryptic footnote in A Theory of Justice, John Rawls suggested we may possess an analogous moral capacity that accounts for our competence in deploying moral rules.

FORBES: Morality: Nature or Culture?

The Schools Minister Jacqui Smith welcomed the growth in the subject and its capacity to offer a beneficial moral influence.

BBC: Religion pulls in GCSE students

" As Eunice said at one point, Special Olympics teaches "that all human beings are created equal in the sense that each has the capacity and a hunger for moral excellence, for courage, for friendship and for love.

NPR: Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Olympic Legacy

That is the sort of moral immunity we normally extend to persons who lack the capacity to understand either the consequences of their actions or the difference between right and wrong: very young children, extreme mental defectives and, more controversially, the severely mentally ill.

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Most people are used to juggling two discordant views of themselves and their fellow humans, one statistical, according to which what's normal is what most people do most of the time, and one rooted in what you could call the moral imagination: a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God capacity to put themselves into other people's moccasins, however horrible or untypical the circumstances.

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In his 1759 book the "Theory of the Moral Sentiments, " philosopher Adam Smith argued that empathy (he called it sympathy) was motivated by the capacity to imagine being another person.

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