Science of morality (also known as science of ethics or scientific ethics) may refer to various forms of ethical naturalism grounding morality and ethics...
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Ethical naturalism (section Morality as a science)
knowledge. Indeed, proponents of ethical naturalism have argued that humanity needs to invest in the science of morality, a broad and loosely defined field...
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viewed morality as a construct, and thus as culturally relative, although others such as Sam Harris argue that there is an objective science of morality. Though...
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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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Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values is a 2010 book by Sam Harris, in which he promotes a science of morality and argues that many...
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Normative ethics (category Philosophy of life)
Joseph Daleiden's The Science of Morality: The Individual, Community, and Future Generations (1998) describe how societies can use science to figure out how...
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Secular morality is the aspect of philosophy that deals with morality outside of religious traditions. Modern examples include humanism, freethinking,...
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codes from a philosophy of utilitarianism, ethical naturalism, or evolutionary ethics, and some advocate a science of morality. Humanists International...
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Secular ethics (section Tenets of secular ethics)
scientific reasoning can reveal objective moral truth (known as science of morality). Secular ethics frameworks are not always mutually exclusive from...
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New Atheism (redirect from Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse)
considers that the well-being of conscious creatures forms the basis of morality. In The Moral Landscape, he argues that science can in principle answer moral...
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Sam Harris (redirect from Political views of Sam Harris)
podcast focuses on a wide array of topics related to science and spirituality, including philosophy, religion, morality, free will, neuroscience, meditation...
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Ethics (redirect from Philosophy of morality)
Virtue ethics sees the manifestation of virtues, like courage and compassion, as the fundamental principle of morality. Ethics is closely connected to value...
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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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activity influences climate, or even a science of morality). In 1990, Steven Hilgartner, a scholar in science and technology studies, criticized some...
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Deontology (category Morality)
ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather...
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Moral development (redirect from Morality throughout the Life Span)
understanding of morality from infancy through adulthood. The theory states that morality develops across the lifespan in a variety of ways. Morality is influenced...
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Felicific calculus (redirect from Mathematics of philosophy)
Bellman equation Epicurus Ethical calculus Reinforcement learning Science of morality Utilitarian social choice rule - a mathematical formula for felicific...
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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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Morality Science of morality Page 173 in: R. F. Jones (1951). "The Invention of the Ethical Calculus". Seventeenth Century Studies in the History of English...
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Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era. Victorian values emerged in all...
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Is–ought problem (redirect from Science and value)
problem in book III, part I, section I of his book, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739): In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have...
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Thomas Hobbes (redirect from Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury)
objective science of morality. Much of the book is occupied with demonstrating the necessity of a strong central authority to avoid the evil of discord...
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the external world. In The Constitution of Man, Combe uses phrenology to create a practical science of morality, proposing that conforming to natural laws...
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the "how" of life. Science also studies and can provide recommendations for the pursuit of well-being and a related conception of morality. An alternative...
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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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Political philosophy (redirect from List of classics of political philosophy)
and creating an objective science of morality.[citation needed] Much of the book is occupied with demonstrating the necessity of a strong central authority...
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implications of such research. The six stages of moral development occur in phases of pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional morality. For his...
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ended all dispute." Bentham, Jeremy. (1834). Deontology; or, The science of morality, Vol. 1, p. 323; excerpt, "ipsedixitism ... comes down to us from...
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Moral hierarchy (category Morality)
concept of a hierarchy of levels of moral complexity. Carol Gilligan James W. Fowler Jane Loevinger Moral high ground Moral psychology Science of morality McDougall...
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Moral foundations theory (redirect from Haidt model of liberal-conservative morality)
developed by a diverse group of collaborators and popularized in Haidt's book The Righteous Mind. The theory proposes that morality is "more than one thing"...
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