Reason and Morality is a 1978 book about ethics by the philosopher Alan Gewirth. The work for which he is best known, it received positive reviews. The...
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Morality (from Latin moralitas 'manner, character, proper behavior') is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper...
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from morality based on practical reason. Kant argued that the goal of humanity is to achieve perfect happiness and virtue (the summum bonum) and believed...
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The intersections of morality and religion involve the relationship between religious views and morals. It is common for religions to have value frameworks...
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providing good reasons. For example, when evaluating a moral decision, "morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one's conduct by reason—that is,...
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Alan Gewirth (category Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni)
philosophy at the University of Chicago, and author of Reason and Morality (1978), Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications (1982), The Community...
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the basis and motivation of morality. It also discusses how the existence of God and the soul's immortality as "postulates of practical reason" fit into...
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Desire (section Action, practical reasons and morality)
right reason. He refers to this distinction as the difference between legality (Legalität), i.e. acting in accordance with outer norms, and morality (Moralität)...
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Morality can be defined as a system of ideas about right and wrong conduct. In everyday life, morality is typically associated with human behavior rather than...
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of Hindu mythology and tradition. Oriental Translation Fund. p. xii. Jonathan Parry (2003). Joanna Overing (ed.). Reason and Morality. Routledge. pp. 209–210...
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The morality play is a genre of medieval and early Tudor drama. The term is used by scholars of literary and dramatic history to refer to a genre of play...
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Secular morality is the aspect of philosophy that deals with morality outside of religious traditions. Modern examples include humanism, freethinking, and most...
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Science of morality may refer to various forms of ethical naturalism grounding morality in rational, empirical consideration of the natural world. It is...
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Normative ethics (section Morality as a binding force)
Gilligan, argues that morality arises out of the experiences of empathy and compassion. It emphasizes the importance of interdependence and relationships in...
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Kantian ethics (redirect from Kantian morality)
between reason and desire. Because it does not address the tension between self-interest and morality, Kant's ethics cannot give individuals any reason to...
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Euthyphro dilemma (redirect from God-centered morality)
morality could wholly depend on something arbitrary... [for] when we say that some moral state of affairs obtains, we take it that there is a reason for...
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all social classes and reached all facets of Victorian living. The values of the period—which can be classed as religion, morality, Evangelicalism, industrial...
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"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" is an essay written by Peter Singer in 1971 and published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1972. It argues that affluent...
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"mental power, moral excellence and physical prowess" are irrelevant. He discards his private reason and morality, and shows no personal feelings. What...
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Han Feizi (section The morality of Han Fei)
"mental power, moral excellence and physical prowess" are irrelevant. He discards his private reason and morality, and shows no personal feelings. What...
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Abigail Adams (category Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States)
predestination or original sin; instead he emphasized the importance of reason and morality. In July 1775 his wife Elizabeth, with whom he had been married for...
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In Islam, morality in the sense of "non practical guidelines" or "specific norms or codes of behavior" for good doing (as opposed to ethical theory), are...
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Moral rationalism (category Morality)
distinct faculties and that the foundations of morality lie in sentiment, not reason. Hume takes it as a fact about human psychology and morality that moral judgments...
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children and is expected to occur in animals, although adults can also exhibit this level of reasoning. Reasoners at this level judge the morality of an...
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societies, and legal control of consumption of alcohol is often justified in terms of public morality, just as much as for medical reasons or to limit...
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Ethics (redirect from Philosophy of morality)
truth and keeping promises. Virtue ethics sees the manifestation of virtues, like courage and compassion, as the fundamental principle of morality. Ethics...
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The Righteous Mind (redirect from The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion)
Politics and Religion is a 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt, in which the author describes human morality as it relates to politics and religion...
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The Heart Part 5 (section Lyrics and composition)
elder role in the rap world. He sees his influence and now wants to be a voice of reason and morality, not just a coveted rap star." Adapted from Jaxtsa...
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On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (German: Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift) is an 1887 book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche...
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Moral development (redirect from Morality throughout the Life Span)
is right and wrong; it is for this reason that young children have different moral judgment and character than that of a grown adult. Morality in itself...
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