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
