Sentences with phrase «of moral philosophers»

Wesley believed that Christianity was essentially a social religion, and Methodist preachers engaged in a variety of humanitarian endeavors that were practical expressions of the ideas of the moral philosophers.

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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.

«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....

His work is not necessarily the best moral philosophy now being written — Iris Murdoch, for one, may offer a rival philosophy he would find difficult to answer — but his analysis of our moral paradox is so acute that he, perhaps uniquely among contemporary philosophers, offers the possibility of its solution.

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.

John Paul was not just personally holy and personally interesting - poet, philosopher, essayist, linguist, a man with a gift for friendship, a man of prayer, a courageous man with massive moral integrity matched with humour and greatintellectual gifts.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

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.

For example, the Hungarian - born moral and political philosopher Aurel Kolnai speaks for a conservatism that attempts to do justice to the reality of a natural order as well as to the prudential requirements of political life.

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

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).

A temporary condition of this sort, connected with the religious evolution of a singularly lofty character, both intellectual and moral, is well described by the Catholic philosopher, Father Gratry, in his autobiographical recollections.

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».

Though our moral philosophers have differed in many details, especially in regard to the sources of moral judgment, they have agreed amazingly in regard to what men ought to do.

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.

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

Jefferson thought Jesus to be a great moral philosopher and wanted to focus on that aspect of the New Testament — his teachings on how one should treat others.

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....

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).

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.

He notes that Marxists share with conservative philosophers a disdain for concerns about the meaning of language, but he observes that it is exactly at the level of language that the moral inadequacies and corruptions of our age are evident.

What Rapp discovers bears the weight of the decision that gave rise to her research: «This technology turns every user into a moral philosopher, as she concludes her fears and fantasies of the limits of mothering a fetus with a disability.»

These wandering philosophers mostly put forward some version of the fine, austere moral code of the Stoics, adapted for popular appeal.

Humboldt felt that the study of human character types had been neglected: neither the deductive reasoning of the philosophers nor practical moral treatises had done them justice.

«Our intuitions,» for this liberal philosopher, were the intuitions of liberal philosophers, not the moral sentiments of a common humanity.

These philosophers also believed that people were basically virtuous; they supposed that improved standards of living, and habits rationally modified by knowledge, would lead to gradually rising moral standards in society.

It would indeed seem strange if one of the major religious philosophers of our time were insensitive to moral issues or were.

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.»

It is worth repeating that economics, from the time of Plato through to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill was as deeply concerned with issues of social justice, ethics and morality as with economic analysis itself However, economics students today are taught that Adam Smith was the «father of modern economics» but not that he was also a moral philosopher.

The editors say that 15 percent were doctors and people connected with medical research, while 12 percent fitted TNR's category of «serious moral philosophers.»

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.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

From the Greeks down to Aquinas, every moral philosopher of note had assumed that the pursuit of happiness is the primary moral question.

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

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.

Together these philosophers have supplied a new interpretation of Aristotle's ethics and the Thomist natural law tradition which has allowed Robert P. George and like - minded writers to make a fruitful (in some aspects) and definitely noticeable moral critique of American politics and culture.

Note the curious assumption that moral scruples are the business of the philosopher, not the woman.

She's less worried about the political dominance of a philosopher king than moral merit being strictly tied to intellect.

The mythical figure Philosophia - Sapientia, the personification of wisdom, suckled philosophers at her breast and by this way they absorbed wisdom and moral virtue.

An occupational therapist turned political philosopher, he holds degrees in occupational therapy and moral sciences, and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Tampere (Finland) on the politics of basic income.

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.

Philosophers and psychologists have long used variations on this vignette to examine different types of moral reasoning, including utilitarian decision making.

Cognitive animal behaviorist Bekoff and philosopher Pierce argue that nonhuman animals are also moral beings — with not just building blocks or precursors of morality but the real deal.

I, of course, by trade am a moral philosopher; I only got into psychology accidentally.

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

David Hume, one of our greatest moral philosophers, said that moral truths must «take possession of the heart»; otherwise, «they can have no influence on conduct and behaviour.»

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.

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.

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.

Darwin's theory of natural selection was extended to society and morals not by Darwin himself but by the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, father of «the Law of Equal Freedom,» which holds that «every man is free to do that which he wills,» provided it doesn't infringe on the equal freedom of others.