Erasmus' initial position on human nature had been fundamentally optimistic, in the sense that humans, having free will, can be directed toward moral virtue and piety if they receive the proper education, though he always added that this movement toward righteousness required the assistance of grace.
LONDON – The pope who tried to modernize the Roman Catholic Church and the one who directed its moral force against godless communism will be officially declared saints next April, the Vatican announced Monday.
More than two millennia later, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant argued for a deontological (duty-based) view when he claimed that human beings have direct moral duties to other human beings who are morally autonomous entities and thus have moral standing but not to nonhuman organisms, which are not morally autonomous.
Nor would Plato object to Haidt's claim that ethics is based on intuition — direct moral judgments — rather than on reasoning.
So the anti-Question 2 forces didn't attack on direct moral or ethical grounds; instead, its ads took aim at certain provisions and how they were worded.
I quite like an old-fashioned swindle, it gives me a sense of continuity: the person who designed the chocolate finger packet so it contains more air than finger is descended on a direct moral line from the grocer of olden days who used to hide a clog in a bag of flour.
In that way, aesthetic experience is of direct moral value.
There is no moral philosopher's stone, or no way of escaping the need for direct moral judgement.
Models of diffusion of responsibility suggest that principals will avoid direct moral responsibility by hiring agents to act unethically on their behalf.
Our moral sense should be understood in terms of our general capacity to feel and direct moral sentiments at both ourselves and at others.
As opposed to ancient art, which was afforded a direct moral and religious relevance, modern art reflects its status as art.
