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- Dictionarymo·ral·i·ty/məˈralədē/
noun
- 1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior: "the matter boiled down to simple morality: innocent prisoners ought to be freed" Similar Opposite
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Apr 17, 2002 · The topic of this entry is not—at least directly—moral theory; rather, it is the definition of morality. Moral theories are large and complex things; definitions are not. The question of the definition of morality is the question of identifying the target of moral theorizing.
Apr 17, 2002 · Defining morality as a public system incorporates the essential feature that everyone who is subject to moral judgment knows what kinds of actions morality prohibits, requires, discourages, encourages, and allows.
Jun 27, 2022 · There is much disagreement about what, exactly, constitutes a moral theory. Some of that disagreement centers on the issue of demarcating the moral from other areas of practical normativity, such as the ethical and the aesthetic.
Feb 23, 2004 · The most basic aim of moral philosophy, and so also of the Groundwork, is, in Kant’s view, to “seek out” the foundational principle of a “metaphysics of morals,” which Kant understands as a system of a priori moral principles that apply the CI to human persons in all times and cultures.
Sep 27, 2006 · Elizabeth Anscombe’s landmark essay “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958) went on the attack against Kantian-derived ethics, proclaiming that “the concepts of obligation, and duty—moral obligation and moral duty, that is to say—and of what is morally right and wrong, and of the moral sense of ‘ought’, ought to be ...
Jun 8, 2022 · 7. Empirical Challenges to Turiel’s Definition of Morality: Does It Fail in Other Cultures? The definition of morality proposed by Turiel and his associates is an empirical hypothesis about the sorts of transgressions that will evoke moral criterion judgments.
Mar 26, 2008 · Hume’s definition builds on his account of moral judgment, and it makes virtue dependent on the responses of a “judicious” spectator who contemplates things from a general point of view. The trait of prudence, for example, is a virtue because it tends to be pleasing to such a spectator.
Jul 18, 2003 · Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics. It may, initially, be identified as the one that emphasizes the virtues, or moral character, in contrast to the approach that emphasizes duties or rules (deontology) or that emphasizes the consequences of actions (consequentialism). Suppose it is obvious that someone ...
Oct 22, 2002 · The intrinsic value of something is said to be the value that that thing has “in itself,” or “for its own sake,” or “as such,” or “in its own right.”. Extrinsic value is value that is not intrinsic. Many philosophers take intrinsic value to be crucial to a variety of moral judgments.
Jun 14, 2002 · Skepticism with moral falsehood = every substantive moral belief is false. Skepticism about moral reality = no moral properties or facts exist. Practical moral skepticism = there is not always any or enough or distinctively moral reason to be moral.
