Austin espoused the cause of Moral Re-Armament, a Christian anti-war movement.
Which is fine – so long as it doesn't produce neurotic children and, later, judgmental adults, all in the cause of moral ends that are rarely, and sometimes never, achieved.
As is evident from the reaction to an article written by abolitionist Sarah Grimké in 1838, many readers were committed to the cause of moral enlightenment, but most women ultimately were forced to rely on male authority figures.
The negative psychological outcomes from ethical dilemmas are one category that can be the cause of "moral distress".
Augustine (Confessions) thought that dreams are not only subjectively indistinguishable from waking life, but also took them to be a cause of moral concern because of their vivid phenomenal character.
Chances are there's a conservative politician under your bed or on your favorite news show screaming that sex, and the sex industry, are the cause of moral decay.
Its subtopics are "Of Man and his connections," "Of Duty, or Moral Obligation," "The Final Causes of our Moral Faculties of Perception and Affection," "The Principal Distinctions of Duty or Virtue," "Of Man's Duty to Himself," "Of the Nature of Good, and the Chief Good," "Duties to Society," and so on.
Hume's acknowledgment of regular, predictable causes of the moral and aesthetic sentiment is sometimes taken as an indication that Hume is not a genuine subjectivist.
In the Treatise Hume details the causes of the moral sentiments, in doing so explaining why agreeable and advantageous traits prove to be the ones that generate approval.
