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moral dilemma — moral dilemmas … Philosophy dictionary
moral sense — theory … Philosophy dictionary
Moral reasoning — is a study in psychology that overlaps with moral philosophy. It is also called moral development. Prominent contributors to theory include Lawrence Kohlberg and Elliot Turiel. The term is sometimes used in a different sense: reasoning under… … Wikipedia
Moral luck — describes circumstances whereby a moral agent is assigned moral blame or praise for an action or its consequences even though it is clear that said agent did not have full control over either the action or its consequences. This term, introduced… … Wikipedia
moral argument for the existence of God — 1 The argument that our capacity for moral thought requires a divine explanation. The most famous version of the argument is that of Descartes, who held that our conception of perfection required a perfect archetype or origin. 2 The argument that … Philosophy dictionary
moral realism — realism as applied to the judgements of ethics, and to the values, obligations, rights, etc. that are referred to in ethical theory. The leading idea is to see moral truth as grounded in the nature of things rather than in subjective and variable … Philosophy dictionary
moral sense theory — The view particularly associated with Hutcheson, that we possess a moral sense partially akin to the other senses, that disposes us to the approvals and disapprovals that we feel. The ‘sense’ in question is certainly to be distinguished from any… … Philosophy dictionary
moral dilemmas — Situations in which each possible course of action breaches some otherwise binding moral principle. Serious dilemmas make the stuff of many tragedies. The conflict can be described in different ways. One suggestion is that whichever action the… … Philosophy dictionary
moral law — Some theories of ethics see the subject in terms of a number of laws (as in the Ten Commandments). The status of these laws may be that they are the edicts of a divine lawmaker, or that they are truths of reason, knowable a priori . Other… … Philosophy dictionary
moral luck — A phenomenon investigated particularly by Williams and Thomas Nagel . In the Kantian tradition, a person s moral worth depends only on the quality of their will, and is thus independent of external circumstance. But reflection shows that our… … Philosophy dictionary
