The disclosure generated unflattering headlines around the world like "Anti-Drug Crusader Can't Say No to Gambling" (The Ottawa Citizen) and "Morals Advocate Fritters $8m" (The Times of London).
For there, the Dutch classicist, ambassador, and corporate counsel for the Dutch East India Company challenged the moral relativism advocated by the ancient skeptic, Carneades, by laying out the basic requirements of communal living.
Alongside his writing, Tolstoy was a moral philosopher, advocating vegetarianism, celibacy and non-violence.
Critics of the kind of moral theory advocated by Bentham and Mill often talk about the practical difficulties of measuring happiness, which might give the coalition pause for thought.
As chairwoman of a disparate group of liberal and conservative thinkers assembled in 1998 by the nonpartisan Institute for American Values, she helped write a report, "A Call to Civil Society: Why Democracy Needs Moral Truths," advocating for increased welfare benefits for married couples, more financing for antipoverty programs, and less sex and violence on prime-time television.
Smith, known in his day as a moral philosopher, advocated free trade.
Moral values advocates, who preach abstinence, oppose abortion, fight the greater availability of contraception, and promote marriage, decry the rise of the country's non-marital birth to 40%.
He realised that a market existed for a children's comics periodical which featured action stories in cartoon form, but which also would convey to children the standards and morals he advocated.
In 1939, Austin was asked to go to the United States to advocate Moral Re-Armament's cause.
Nor did she ever advocate moral or intellectual neutrality on the contrary, she stressed the responsibility to pass judgment and to recognize and call out evil.
Faced with increasing evidence that it will be impossible to avoid dangerous global warming and also burn all their coal and gas reserves, the mining industry has developed a "moral" argument to advocate continued coal use on the grounds that it is actually good for humanity because it provides cheap energy that ends poverty.
