Search results for "Moral questions" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions (such as in Sophistry ... useful in treating cases that involve moral dilemmas. It is also a branch ...
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  • The concept of incommensurability also raises questions regarding ... debates over the possibility of moral dilemmas and the plausibility ...
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  • These are some of underlying unsettled questions. ===Common usage ... meaning, although neither of them, being questions, could be either true or ...
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  • established a reputation as a lecturer on moral and biblical subjects. In ... on many issues and topics, and drew moral conclusions about lying, ...
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  • Praise and blame are closely connected with the concept of moral responsibility ... Philosophical interest in praise and blame derives from questions ...
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  • attitudes in many areas, including ethics, moral theory, metaphysics, and ... at infinitely greater magnitudes, raising questions about the definition of ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • . It holds the cultivation of moral character and embodiment ... and justice. Aristotle, too, explained moral virtues in terms of the rational ...
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  • Moral fallibilism is a specific subset of the broader epistemological ... choose the life path that they follow. Questions of what, how, and why one ...
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  • Chang Heng-ch'ü. 1020-1077) was a Chinese Neo-Confucian moral ... not offer a satisfactory solution to the questions of life, he returned to ...
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  • Whately also involved himself in social questions: He served as president ... Paley's Evidences and Paley's Moral Philosophy. ...
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  • religious elements integral to ethical questions. Some question the validity ... disagreement can occur over moral questions, that moral terms like ...
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  • "study of value." Although questions of value are as old is ... the notion of value in general, of which moral value is only one species ...
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  • approach to essentially spiritual questions such as the attributes ... goodness, justice, and truth, and all other moral perfections, such as become ...
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  • is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt ... became figures of amusement rather than moral edification. In addition ...
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  • good for a human being. Utilitarianism is a moral theory according to which ... words, provide action-guiding rules for moral agents. (See also normative ...
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  • is justified, paternal interference in moral issues (that only affect ... life, be it financial (mandatory pension), moral (criminalization of prostitution ...
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  • Kant offered a bold answer to the questions in his critical philosophy ... thought left open a whole series of new questions about its consequences ...
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  • to judgments of beauty; 2) it de-emphasizes moral beauty; and 3) it ignores ... "disinterested" may invite some questions, his realization that a ...
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