Sentence examples for foundation of ethics from inspiring English sources

"Sexual freedom is so central to new ways of thinking about the foundation of ethics".

He maintains that Smith's ultimately Rousseauian distinction between identification ("a sentiment that is the foundation of ethics" [p. 63]) and self-love (a fundamentally amoral "rational calculator whose calculations can be made explicit" [p. 62]) is what allows Smith to constitute political economy as an autonomous field of knowledge.

His method in that work differs from that of the Treatise: instead of explicating the nature of virtue and vice and our knowledge of them in terms of underlying features of the human mind, he proposes to collect all the traits we know from common sense to be virtues and vices, observe what those in each group have in common, and from that observation discover the "foundation of ethics" (EPM 1.10).

He is remembered for his hedonistic emphasis on physical sensation, his attack on the religious foundations of ethics, and his extravagant educational theory.

(Later, in the Foundations of Ethics, he changed his mind).

His books The Right and the Good and Foundations of Ethics comprise his main offerings in this area.

Richards' history of science is extended into the history of philosophy in Biology and the Foundations of Ethics (1999), edited by Jane Maienschein and Michael Ruse.

During this period, he wrote Kant's Theory of Experience, Kant's Foundations of Ethics, and Kant's Foundations of Aesthetics.

Cohen's first attempt to apply the transcendental method to ethics was his Kant's Foundations of Ethics, which first appeared in 1877.

Second, unlike in his earlier Kant's Foundations of Ethics, Cohen now takes seriously the requirement that the transcendental method begins with a fact of science.

Thus Cohen's account of the foundations of ethics might differ fundamentally from Kant's indeed, it might turn Kant's account on its head.