It is worth asking whether the Darwinian conception of nature can open up any new ways of thinking about the foundations of morality or make any contribution to moral progress in a world that human beings have transformed so thoroughly.
The answers that Ross offers to these questions and his sensitivity to the dictates of common-sense morality together make up his unique contribution to moral theory.
Her 1997 book, "Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy," was hailed as a "major contribution to moral philosophy" and a "brilliant examination of relativism" by Hilary Putnam, an emeritus professor of philosophy at Harvard.
Providing a mere thumbnail sketch of Bernard Gert's approach to common morality will prove to be a much more daunting task because, in contrast to Beauchamp and Childress, Gert's primary contribution to ethics and practical ethics just is his account of common morality.
Undoubtedly, the latter contribution to tax revenue, morality, and appropriateness is preferable.
above, show that the cultivation of taste can make a broader contribution to the realization of morality than Schiller realizes.
Quesnel's Nouveau Testament en français avec des réflexions morales (1692; "New Testament in French with Thoughts on Morality") was a major contribution to the literature of Jansenism, but it caused serious repercussions.
On the other hand, Gert regards the elaboration, interpretation, and systematic defense of the common morality to be his own contribution to philosophical theory.
The group has made forcible contributions to most recent morality and "issues" debates, from campaigning against teen sex education in one of Australia's most under-educated districts, to begging the government to suspend anti-discrimination laws during the same-sex marriage debate, so the ACL can crank up their anti-gay rhetoric.
His critical examination of hedonism — the view that the goal of morality is the maximization of general pleasure — was seminal and stands as a permanent contribution to the subject which can still be read with profit today.
