Moral sense theory (also known as moral sentimentalism) is a theory in moral epistemology and meta-ethics concerning the discovery of moral truths. Moral...

forms of moral sense theory. It is usually furthermore taken as essential to ethical intuitionism that there be self-evident or a priori moral knowledge;...

(including moral realism and ethical subjectivism), as opposed to error theory, which asserts that all are erroneous. Moral realism (in the robust sense; see...

Moral foundations theory is a social psychological theory intended to explain the origins of and variation in human moral reasoning on the basis of innate...

Moral development focuses on the emergence, change, and understanding of morality from infancy through adulthood. The theory states that morality develops...

moral anti-realism and moral skepticism, including ethical subjectivism (which denies that moral propositions refer to objective facts), error theory...

Sentimentalism (philosophy), a theory in moral epistemology concerning how one knows moral truths; also known as moral sense theory Sentimentalism (literature)...

Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development constitute an adaptation of a psychological theory originally conceived by the Swiss psychologist Jean...

properties. Under traditional views there are moral properties or methods which hold objectively in some sense beyond our contingent interests which morally...

there are objective moral facts, how moral knowledge is possible, and how moral judgments motivate people. Influential normative theories are consequentialism...

to the theories of moral realism, moral universalism includes other cognitivist moral theories, such as the subjectivist ideal observer theory and divine...

nature's gentleman, an ideal man born from the sentimentalism of moral sense theory. In the 19th century, in the essay "The Noble Savage" (1853) Charles...

this sense. Philosophical theories on the nature and origins of morality (that is, theories of meta-ethics) are broadly divided into two classes: Moral realism...

This stands in stark contrast to the moral sense theories and teleological moral theories that dominated moral philosophy at the time of Kant's career...

is commanded by God. The theory asserts that what is moral is determined by God's commands and that for a person to be moral he is to follow God's commands...

cognitive theory of morality attempts to explain how moral thinking, in interaction with other psychosocial determinants, govern individual moral conduct...

Ethical theories which place strong emphasis on rights and duty, such as the deontological ethics of Immanuel Kant, are often forms of moral absolutism...

Moral particularism is a theory in normative ethics that runs counter to the idea that moral actions can be determined by applying universal moral principles...

the sentimentalist this capacity was most important in morality (moral sense theory). Sentimentalists contended that where the rationalists believed morality...

who is closed-minded), there is still a meaningful sense in which an action could be more "moral" (morally preferable) than another; that is, they believe...

The first he calls moral virtues, and the second intellectual virtues (though both are "moral" in the modern sense of the word). Moral virtues Aristotle...

Grief". Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory. Oxford University Press. p. 127. Mothersill, Mary (1996). "The Moral Dilemmas Debate". Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory...

The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith. It provided the ethical, philosophical, economic, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's...

"scene of thought" was Hume's realisation that Francis Hutcheson's theory of moral sense could be applied to the understanding of morality as well. From...

Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (German: Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne, also called On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense) is a philosophical...

reliance on moral sense to the deontological ethics of moral obligation. From there it was taken up by Adam Smith, who elaborated a theory of moral judgement...

the moral standards. In social cognitive theory of morality, self-regulatory mechanisms embedded in moral standards and self-sanctions translate moral reasoning...

In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: δέον, 'obligation, duty' + λόγος, 'study') is the normative ethical theory that the...

The governmental theory of the atonement (also known as the rectoral theory, or the moral government theory) is a doctrine in Christian theology concerning...

relativism Moral responsibility Moral scepticism Moral sense Moral sense theory Moral skepticism Moral status of animals in the ancient world Moral subjectivism...