Sentences with phrase «century moral philosophers»

«The eighteenth - century moral philosophers... inherited a set of moral injunctions on the one hand and a conception of human nature on the other which had been expressly designed to be discrepant with each other....

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It is scarcely any wonder then that late - twentieth - century evangelical Protestants are rarely found among ethicists, moral philosophers, or policy analysts.

The nineteenth century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche shrewdly observed that in his day the bourgeois elites of Europe wanted the fruit of Christianity (i.e., moral culture) without the tree itself (i.e., the actual doctrine and practice).

One of the searching interpretations of atonement in the twentieth century was given by the philosopher Josiah Royce in The Problem of Christianity.8 Royce's philosophic idealism was built upon the tragic aspect of life and what he called the «moral burden of the individual».

Each is actually shorthand for a framework developed by moral philosophers over the centuries.

In the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Betham framed the issue about animals and law in An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.