Sentences with phrase «moral philosophers»

Through helping students develop as moral philosophers, critical consumers of information and civic agents, we hope to change the way they see themselves as individuals in a larger society.

This conference will bring together many of his friends, colleagues, and other leading living moral philosophers in order to honor his memory and make progress on those questions he believed matter most.

For moral philosophers this is actually not a terribly surprising problem.

Josh Greene was on the high school debate team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when he was first introduced to the great moral philosophers John Stuart Mill and Immanuel Kant.

There is a community of thinkers from social psychologists to moral philosophers who have emphasized that the caring, courage, and compassion that lead to trust are fundamental to what it is to be human.

«Quoting from an argument advanced by moral philosopher Peter Singer, for instance, [Gates] questions why anyone would donate money to build a new wing for a museum rather than spend it on preventing illnesses that can lead to blindness.

The moral agent's character, the structure of his desires and dispositions, became at best a peripheral rather than a central topic for moral philosophy, thus losing the place assigned to it by the vast majority of moral philosophers from Plato to Hume.»

Hays defines reason more narrowly than most moral philosophers do.

An argument forwarded by Australian moral philosopher Peter Singer was wrongly attritubted to hedge fund manager Paul Singer.

Fr John O'Leary enjoys a wide - ranging compilation of essays from one of the nation's foremost moral philosophers; Ryan Day on the critical relevance of the dreams of St John Bosco and Kit Dollard appreciates a tour around the cloisters at Pluscarden Abbey.

Utilitarian moral philosophers may likewise appeal to process metaphysics as a powerful external justification for their ethical theory.

Recently, Benjamin Sasse of Nebraska has been defending the peculiar inefficiency — yes, inefficiency — of the body to which he was elected, while invoking obscure moral philosophers on the Senate floor.

Further, as summarized by a new generation of moral philosophers with a keen interest in neuroscience including Jesse Prinz, Jonathan Haidt, and Jonathan Greene, among many others, emotionality is pervasive in human consciousness.

She focuses instead on moral philosophers such as the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Francis Hutcheson, Edward Gibbon and others.

While many moral philosophers arrive at the same conclusion after much intellectual effort, the popularity of such as Ann Landers reminds us that their labors are not necessary to perpetuating the maxims by which most people have lived since that unfortunate afternoon in the garden.

«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....

The «realists» spawned ethicists who became moral philosophers, clarifying moral questions in medicine and business and, in their spare time, keeping alive the «God question.»

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

These figures» usually Chris tian moral philosophers and theologians» argue that the Christian call to righteousness and holiness demands that we transcend the anger we feel when we are intentionally harmed.

The question of whether there are absolute values is one which is a subject of debate amongst moral philosophers.

Thus, for example, before addressing the ethical question, moral philosophers felt obliged first to demonstrate that ethical discourse really was cognitively meaningful.

In a recent speech, Sasse invoked the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, C. S. Lewis, and the British moral philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe as exemplars of a deliberative spirit that he thinks is needed for healthy democratic governance — one rooted in a philosophical, and specifically Socratic, virtue.

Specifically referred to by the Court was evidence given by BHA Vice President and moral philosopher Simon Blackburn, who had said, «True respect for life means respect for the persons whose lives are in question - refusing assistance, when their plea is settled and uncoerced discounts and demeans their personhood.

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

Darwinian moral philosophers such as George Williams reject the notion that evolution should be a direct guide to ethics or to education.

You can be a brilliant moral philosopher with a prizewinning doctoral thesis expounding the evils of war, and still be given a hard time by a draft board evaluating your claim to be a conscientious objector.

However, the difference is that whereas Mma Ramotswe is an African Miss Marple - who has an instinctive understanding of people based on her close observations of life in her own small community, the star of this new series is an extremely well read moral philosopher named Isabel Dalhousie which gives McCall Smith a wider and more sophisticated canvas on which to work.

As that great moral philosopher James Tiberius Kirk once said, «Risk is our business.»

Better to be like the great moral philosopher Linus van Pelt, who carried a candle at night, and his sister Lucy asked him why he was doing so.

Ugh, to quote that great moral philosopher Popeye, «I yam what I yam.»

Derek Parfit was «thought by many to be the most original moral philosopher in the English - speaking world» (The New Yorker).

I would be energetically seeking out opinion pieces, articles, and letters from leaders in the various fields, i.e., relevant scientists, relevant moral philosophers, relevant economists, relevant psychologists, and so forth.

Recall that the environmentalist moral philosopher holds the public in low esteem.

This is one of the best pieces I have read in a long time, combining the insights of one of the best climate scientists (Pierrehumbert) with those of our most challenging moral philosopher, Peter Singer.

On no more than the basis that «climate change is occurring», moral philosophers tell us what is right, social historians invent lessons from history to make climate criminals in the present, science historians invent conspiracy theorists, and psychologists tell us how to apply distress to change public opinion, and why debate is just too risky to trust to the public.

Why, we would not be at all surprised if even some of those «serious moral philosophers» think in ways shaped by considerations that TNR might deem «religious.»

Roger Pielke Jr. and Max Boykoff are listed as Associate Editors, and the Utilitarian moral philosopher, Peter Singer is on the journal's editorial board.

This «moral reading» of the Constitution calls on judges to act as moral philosophers: «equal protection of the laws» should mean what best promotes «equal concern and respect» for all humans; «liberty» in the «due process» clause should mean autonomy in matters important to personal development, and so forth.

The sheer length and complexity of great novels, their patient playing out of the consequences of our moral choices, make them infinitely more useful than the brief schematic narratives that are commonly employed by moral philosophers to illustrate their claims.

Adam Smith, the great moral philosopher and founder of classical economics, tells us that the market requires a moral - legal foundation.

On the other hand, the world in which these moral philosophers flourish is a world that has lost its moral bearings in an unprecedented way.

Contrary to the stereotype promulgated by socialists, Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher.

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