Sentences with phrase «most moral philosophers»

Hays defines reason more narrowly than most moral philosophers do.

Not exact matches

The political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson reject not only Tutu's invocation of religion and charged that, by seeking to transform the attitudes, emotions, and moral judgments of citizens, he improperly imports soulcraft into statecraft and transgresses the autonomy of citizens — contemporary liberalism's most sacrosanct value.

Like most modern thinkers, Rousseau has an enormous amount of confidence in the ability of the «moral law within» (to quote another Rousseauian philosopher) to point each of us in the right direction.

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.

That's one of the most fundamental differences, I think, between a deeply conservative position and a strictly libertarian one: conservatives think that for all its merits, the right we have to choose in the marketplace needs to be shaped by virtue and ordered by a moral order (I never tire of pointing out that Adam Smith thought himself a moral philosopher).

Although the complex moral ability called courage, highly honored by the ancients and ignored by most non-existentialist modern philosophers, is not directly named by Whitehead, it is directly implicated throughout his works in discussions of tragedy and heroism.

Since one of the most famous exponents of process thought has called the western notion of substance a chief cause of moral evil and selfishness in the western world (WVR 6), it is astonishing that another famous process philosopher should have tried a reconciliation between process thought, with its emphasis on relations and actions, and Aristotelian substantialism, with its emphasis on things and states of being.3

Most modern theories of moral reasoning, he learned, were powerfully shaped by one of two great philosophers: Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill.

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.

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

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.