These dialogues raise two general questions about virtues that are important to ethical theory, one concerning instrumentality and another concerning unity.
He thinks that he has discovered the philosophical grounds of Spencer's true coherence, and he hands out academic demerits to the commentators who have missed the underlying unities of Spencer's scientific, philosophical, ethical, psychological, sociological, and political writings.
Its strength lies in its gravely reflective ethical solidity, and it achieves an expression of balance and unity that is developed out of a theory of the harmony of opposites.
It is suggested that, belief in the doctrine of rebirth may have led to the idea of the unity of all life and, consequently, to the ethical concept of non-violence in ancient India.
The Megarians, at least under Eucleides, had an ethical and educational purpose, and it was in this spirit that they defended the unity of goodness.
ETHICAL CULTURE SOCIETY Ellen McBride, president of the American Ethical Union, will discuss "The American Ethical Union: Toward Understanding and Unity in the 21st Century".
Despite the human and ethical considerations involved, at least for now, there has been a rare show of bipartisan unity around ignoring these considerations.
Yet whoever tells the story should stick with the main ethical message, be careful not to twist the facts and embrace the whole of humanity in unity and love.
Bosanquet's ethical and social philosophy, particularly the practical work Some Suggestions in Ethics (1918), shows a similar desire to view reality coherently, as a concrete unity in which pleasure and duty, egoism and altruism are reconciled.
Isaac Newton, who tried to prove the unity of all religions, viewed 'being merciful to all animals' as one of the cross-cultural ethical imperatives.
