• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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