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...

Morality (from Latin moralitas 'manner, character, proper behavior') is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper...

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...

The intersections of morality and religion involve the relationship between religious views and morals. It is common for religions to have value frameworks...

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,...

philosophy at the University of Chicago, and author of Reason and Morality (1978), Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications (1982), The Community...

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...

right reason. He refers to this distinction as the difference between legality (Legalität), i.e. acting in accordance with outer norms, and morality (Moralität)...

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...

of Hindu mythology and tradition. Oriental Translation Fund. p. xii. Jonathan Parry (2003). Joanna Overing (ed.). Reason and Morality. Routledge. pp. 209–210...

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...

Secular morality is the aspect of philosophy that deals with morality outside of religious traditions. Modern examples include humanism, freethinking, and most...

Science of morality may refer to various forms of ethical naturalism grounding morality in rational, empirical consideration of the natural world. It is...

Gilligan, argues that morality arises out of the experiences of empathy and compassion. It emphasizes the importance of interdependence and relationships in...

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...

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...

all social classes and reached all facets of Victorian living. The values of the period—which can be classed as religion, morality, Evangelicalism, industrial...

"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...

"mental power, moral excellence and physical prowess" are irrelevant. He discards his private reason and morality, and shows no personal feelings. What...

"mental power, moral excellence and physical prowess" are irrelevant. He discards his private reason and morality, and shows no personal feelings. What...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

truth and keeping promises. Virtue ethics sees the manifestation of virtues, like courage and compassion, as the fundamental principle of morality. Ethics...

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...

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...

On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (German: Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift) is an 1887 book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche...

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...