Definition of moral philosophy in US English:
moral philosophy
nounˌmôrəl fəˈläsəfēˌmɔrəl fəˈlɑsəfi
The branch of philosophy concerned with ethics.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is moral philosophy that ‘makes philosophers, and purifying their understanding, makes them capable of considering the wonders of nature’.
- Hobbes's philosophy was thus the first modern moral philosophy, for it was the first fully to accept the implications of modern natural science.
- I think he was right when he wrote that among the primary concerns of moral philosophy in our time is to understand the relation of truth to freedom.
- Approaching the question from a very different philosophical perspective, that of ethics and moral philosophy, we meet a contrary position.
- Either way the technical difference between moral philosophy and ethics is so minimal as to be irrelevant.
- Kant's moral philosophy emerges from the amalgamation of the idea of transcendental freedom with that of an imperative of reason.
- In Kant's enormously influential moral philosophy, autonomy, or freedom from the causal determinism of nature, became prominent in justifying the human use of animals.
- One central question of moral philosophy has been to determine what things are intrinsically good for human beings.
- Surely they're old enough to learn about ethics and moral philosophy.
- Any science which helps us to understand and assess morally problematic situations has something to contribute to moral philosophy.
- Secondly, whichever moral philosophy we adopt - whether altruism or egoism - we cannot criticize the pursuit of monetary income on the market.
- Before leaving moral philosophy, we should consider approaches to autonomy which do not depend directly on Kantian moral philosophy as a framework.
- Utilitarianism in moral philosophy is the view that morality should be aimed at promoting wellbeing.