Sentences with phrase «moral philosophers who»

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.

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As a political philosopher who studies how abstract moral notions such as justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policy.

He draws heavily upon the philosopher Hans Jonas, who in turn shows the importance of a religiously grounded moral vision.

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.»

There is in most of us a spark of reason, and much was achieved for universal human moral standing by the great Stoic philosophers who emphasized this logos in us all.

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....

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.

It is Smith - the - moral - philosopher who first became known to a wider public.

Although the terms political philosophy and political theory are used rather indiscriminately, those who think of themselves as political philosophers tend to link what they do closely to philosophical and moral principles; while those who call themselves political theorists tend to appeal to facts about the world and to the way in which the structures and processes of social and political life limit the possibilities for the realisation of those principles by political agency.

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.

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.

The traditional moral virtues originated from Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato, who used them to define the character traits of people who lead successful, uplifting lives.

Many philosophers who study ethics agree that it is important to consider the consequences of one's actions in a moral dilemma to come to an acceptable judgment.