Search results for "Moral sense theory" - New World Encyclopedia
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- behind or underneath a normative ethical view or theory. ... moral properties or of moral truths. Moral sense theory holds that just as ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 16:19, 9 November 2022
- of subjects, he is known primarily for his moral theory and his study of aesthetics ... Harmony and Design, the Inquiry Concerning Moral Good and Evil, in 1725, and ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- The term ‘absolutism’ has both a moral and political connotation ... uniform meaning within contemporary moral and political writings. This ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- Normative ethics, also known as normative theory, or moral theory, intends ... Normative ethics is normative in that they have either moral principles ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 02:48, 16 November 2022
- things or kinds of things. In this sense, it is opposed to the concept ... The term is also used in a wider sense in several fields of philosophy ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- Ethical intuitionism refers to a core of related moral theories, influential ... refers to a cluster of theories about how moral agents come to know which ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- University. He is famous for his work in moral development and education ... becoming fascinated with children's moral reasoning and the earlier ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 19:19, 23 May 2023
- thought, particularly in the areas of moral philosophy and religion. ... influences is Shaftesbury's view of moral truths: while moral truths ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:22, 31 July 2023
- Price did not like the moral sense theory, especially as advanced ... Price’s rejection of the moral sense theory did not imply a total ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ... comes from opposite directions. Firstly, moral realists argue that evaluative ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 12:33, 21 January 2023
- spokesman for the Scottish school of Common Sense philosophy, founded by Thomas ... University, where he read mathematics and moral philosophy under Adam Ferguson ...13 KB (2,001 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- In its "everyday sense" morality (from Latin la|moralitas ... of "morality" in a descriptive sense. Given that different groups ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- to consequentialism, which defines the moral rightness of an action in ... Deontologists think that moral action is essentially about following ...19 KB (2,981 words) - 00:53, 27 July 2022
- He also published a book on Plato's theory of ideas (or forms) that ... good-maximization as the only content of the moral ought. ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- of the Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). his contributions to political economy and moral philosophy; however, his ...16 KB (2,570 words) - 05:45, 15 June 2023
- to it. Perry developed a naturalistic theory of value which defined value ... knowledge. However, he soon dissented from moral and spiritual ontology, and ...11 KB (1,682 words) - 00:28, 8 December 2022
- Ethics (from the Greek ethos – custom) in the sense of systems of ... Philosophical ethics (also called moral philosophy) is divided into ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- abound, with some even claiming that moral rights do not exist without ... acts of charity). Whether these duties are moral or purely legal will is discussed ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- a many shapes and sizes. There are, e.g., moral duties, legal duties, parental ... and ‘obligation’ and expresses moral action as ‘’required’’ ...19 KB (3,122 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- the notion of value in general, of which moral value is only one species ... study of goodness, or value, in the widest sense of these terms. It may be ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective ... philosophical perspective which took common sense as the source and ground ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- describe or evaluate observations independently of theory. ... in a meaningful way. The adoption of a new theory includes and is dependent ...17 KB (2,394 words) - 00:08, 8 January 2024
- and asserting that human beings must take moral and spiritual responsibility ... of the Christian concept of God signaled a moral and spiritual crisis for ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- be known with certainty is our immediate sense perceptions (pathé), which ... detailed definitions of different types of sense experience. Theodorus held ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- 1919 – January 29, 2002) was an English moral philosopher who held the ... views, particularly his view that moral philosophy has an obligation ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 16:05, 7 December 2022
- Praise and blame are closely connected with the concept of moral responsibility ... school of thought may be called the desert theory. According to this theory ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 22:13, 30 November 2022
- The existence of propositions in the former sense, as well as the ... ===Correspondence theory of truth=== The concept of truth presupposed ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- a founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, and played an integral role ... point for various proponents of common-sense philosophy (including James ...15 KB (2,355 words) - 22:50, 30 April 2023
- come to be called the "structural theory" of psychoanalysis in ... the spiritual aspect of mind and reifies a theory of psychological dysfunction—the ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- By the end of the eighteenth century, Gall developed his theory of ... and started to further investigate this theory. Gall collected human ...14 KB (2,093 words) - 05:20, 9 April 2024
- good for a human being. Utilitarianism is a moral theory according to which ... means that classical utilitarianism is a theory in which the right actions ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
- Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that moral utterances lack ... that non-cognitive attitudes underlie moral discourse and this discourse ...15 KB (2,197 words) - 02:38, 16 November 2022
- In a general sense, skepticism or scepticism (Greek: skeptomai, to ... fallibilism is Karl Popper, who builds his theory of knowledge, critical rationalism ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims ... different cultural groups have different moral codes. This empirical fact ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- to judgments of beauty; 2) it de-emphasizes moral beauty; and 3) it ignores ... It was not "aesthetics" in the sense of a "study of human ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- and that is why he felt at home in Kant’s moral philosophy. In his critique ... theoretical knowledge in the strictest sense – could lead so soon to ...16 KB (2,518 words) - 14:42, 1 August 2022
- or it may simply refer to more inclusive moral, economic, and/or political ... Although it has a negative aura in the sense of the well to do inhabitant ...12 KB (1,700 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- Emotivism is the non-cognitivist meta-ethical theory that ethical ... positivism in the twentieth century, the theory was stated most vividly by ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- . It holds the cultivation of moral character and embodiment ... and justice. Aristotle, too, explained moral virtues in terms of the rational ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 20:38, 3 May 2023
- necessarily bring about happiness on earth. Moral goodness can result in persecution ... dealt with issues of epistemology, or theory of knowledge, Ethics, and ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- one of the early proponents of Boas' theory of "cultural relativism ... home, and raised their children with strong sense for their cultural inheritance. ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- areas: Epistemology, history of philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of ... to J. M. E. McTaggert, as lecturer in moral science. In 1933, he became ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 19:14, 24 November 2023
- Clifford developed a type of Darwinian theory of ethics within an atheistic ... geometry. In 1870 he wrote On the Space Theory of Matter, arguing that energy ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- comes from benevolence, and his social theory can be characterized by the ... is not the source of personal obligation to moral conduct nor the foundation ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to determine character ... of a person based on such measures. In this sense, phrenology was not merely ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 05:06, 24 November 2022
- Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia ... we are inclined to understand virtue in a moral sense, which is not always ...33 KB (5,174 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- context of political philosophy and legal theory, especially given legitimized ... depriving her of free agency. Determining moral responsibility requires careful ...26 KB (4,117 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- 1878, he was made Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy. The lectures ... of “Freedom” as Applied to Will and the Moral Progress of Man, Prolegomena ...28 KB (4,469 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- , a slim volume about eudaemonism, the theory that happiness is the highest ... advanced, among other things, a logical theory of symbolism and a "picture ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 21:22, 9 November 2022
- be overcome by guilt and a concomitant sense of self-loathing. In both ... Thus, ethical egoism is the most practical moral theory, or the most capable ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy ... To philosophers, however, Bradley's contributions to moral philosophy ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- of Mineralogy from 1828 to 1832 and of Moral Philosophy (then called ... Once a theory was arrived at by induction, Whewell believed that it ...22 KB (3,347 words) - 20:45, 13 May 2023
- justification, and that art did not need moral justification and was even ... that the value of art lay in serving some moral or didactic purpose. The ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- known for applying evolutionary theory to the study of politics ... Principles of Psychology, which explored a theory of the mind as a biological ...19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- :Compare Moral relativism and Cultural relativism. For an unrelated ... in 1962), suggesting the inevitability of moral conflict between people. ...25 KB (3,816 words) - 03:07, 8 December 2022
- Culture is based on the premise that moral tenets are not necessarily ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- for Dr. Glennie, the professor of moral philosophy, who was unable ... thinkers. He was examiner in logical and moral philosophy (1857-1862 and ...14 KB (2,073 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- the author of several books, including A Theory of Justice and Political ... to Princeton to pursue a doctorate in moral philosophy. Rawls then married ...20 KB (2,773 words) - 07:09, 3 August 2022
- United States, Neo-Hegelians, in a loose sense, range from transcendentalists ... Many philosophers are referred to as Neo-Hegelians in a general sense ...8 KB (1,042 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- widely cited as the most important British moral philosopher of his time. ... for his attempt to return the study of moral philosophy to its foundations: ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- of God as being omniscient in the total sense, chose to rebuke created ... That some entity is omniscient in the sense of possessing all possible ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- world, eventually opting to act on his pet theory and kill an old pawnbroker ... the kind of suffering that can bring about moral regeneration. He does not ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- must be posited for human thoughts to make sense, not something known in any way. ... intellectual intuition of things. In a sense, it was the starting point ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- in part from its conformity to objective moral standards. Natural law theory ... in part from its conformity to objective moral standards. ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- Uncertainty must be taken in a sense radically distinct from the familiar ... public, many specialists in decision theory, statistics and other quantitative ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- feelings, beliefs, imaginations, tastes, moral and aesthetic senses embedded ... beliefs, customs, constraints, the sense of morality and beauty, and ...10 KB (1,498 words) - 06:44, 5 April 2024
- in psychology, biology, evolutionary theory, and aesthetics into his ... In 1887, Alexander won the Green moral philosophy prize with an essay ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- A principle is fundamental in the sense that it generally cannot be ... example, he identified God (in Aristotelian sense) as the first principle of ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- in an inauthentic way and that the genuine sense of self and its relationship ... * Carries with it its own set of moral obligations. The notion of authenticity ...14 KB (2,048 words) - 19:15, 22 August 2023
- as logic, deduction, and induction to make sense of perceptions and knowledge. ... "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- things, he developed much of the current theory of what are known as "speech ... Austin became White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. He ...17 KB (2,638 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- is justified, paternal interference in moral issues (that only affect ... life, be it financial (mandatory pension), moral (criminalization of prostitution ...22 KB (3,463 words) - 09:06, 18 November 2022
- of unity thereafter. Atonement in this sense, whether the offended party ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- of parents who were unbending on points of moral significance, and particularly ... new controversy of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Simultaneously in 1867 he ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 19:41, 20 November 2023
- as to their spiritual attitude and moral behavior. Included among ... part of God's eternal plan. A strong sense of predestination is expressed ...15 KB (2,422 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- been affected by it to some extent. In that sense, all philosophers in that ... to that of Plato introducing his theory of ideas some 2000 years ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
- of aspects: He formalized production theory; in econometrics he worked ... He published several papers in probability theory, beginning teaching at the ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- has a long history of usage in the sense 'allegation'" ... Some versions of the correspondence theory of truth hold that what ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024
- Shang Yang's economic theory placed an overwhelming emphasis ... Shang Yang's economic theory placed an overwhelming emphasis ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 13:12, 27 January 2023
- by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that tries to give a totalizing ... reasoning, would lead inevitably toward moral, social and ethical progress. ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- cultural, and perhaps even ideological-moral group. The roots of the ... cultural and perhaps even ideological-moral group. Zhonghua refers ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- for food, sleep, and sex. He developed a theory of a hierarchy of human needs ... Maslow first proposed his theory of a "hierarchy of needs" ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 06:31, 14 June 2023
- in the United States, Park developed his theory of group behavior. He postulated ... he encounters is, in some very real sense, the measure of his progress. ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 05:02, 15 December 2022
- His legacy best serves as a lesson in the moral bankruptcy of any regime ... then concluded on the basis of his stage theory that he knew in advance that ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 17:45, 2 May 2023
- in life, he became a professor of medical theory and clinical practice at ... pro-independence pamphlet, Common Sense. He was appointed to represent ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- life, or the aesthetic or formal from the moral. He insisted that the great ... adopted (and was explicitly hostile to) a theory of the work of art as a self ...19 KB (2,790 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- of good parents, all people are in some sense juvenile delinquents, not ... action for young criminals makes even less sense than race-conscious remedies ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 21:26, 4 October 2022
- and have even claimed to occupy the high moral ground. Imperial projects ... ==Lenin's theory of Imperialism== European intellectuals first ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- from greater social order. Social contract theory provides the rationale behind ... The various flavors of social contract theory that have developed are largely ...28 KB (4,260 words) - 15:01, 27 April 2023
- French feminism, and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and ... #039;s terminology; similarity in a loose sense. across disparate philosophical ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics comprising a family ... in advancing the understanding of how game theory applies to certain types ...30 KB (4,403 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical ... of the mind surpassing every standard of Sense" (§ 25). For Kant, ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- Church. Pelagius insisted that man’s moral nature was basically good ... Roman Christians. Pelagius attributed the moral irresponsibility in Rome ...24 KB (3,917 words) - 07:13, 23 November 2022
- of a man and a woman.James Q. Wilson, The Moral Sense (New York: Free Press ... children and divorce. Others refute this theory, claiming “there is no ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 19:50, 20 May 2023
- Christianity and religion as counter to the moral advancement of humanity. ... as whatever makes up bodies and causes the sense impressions of an observer ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 08:10, 20 September 2023
- hold that the only valid economic theory is logically derived from ... on the idea that logical consistency of a theory is more important that any ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- beings participate in their own creation as moral beings; it is also the way ... Catholic Church also has a highly developed moral theology that deals with ...36 KB (5,446 words) - 18:16, 8 December 2022
- In the religious sense, enlightenment is most closely associated with ... a transcendence of phenomenal being, of any sense of material consciousness ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- virtue in order to promote social and moral responsibility, so that people ... of virtue played a central role in ethical theory up until the Enlightenment ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- and metaphysics. The impetus to have a theory of concepts that is ontologically ... Spanish. The fact that concepts are in some sense independent of language makes ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
