His notable Charaktēres (many English translations) consists of 30 brief and vigorous character sketches delineating moral types derived from studies that Aristotle had made for ethical and rhetorical purposes; this work later formed the basis for the masterpiece of Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères... (1699).
Bunyan displays a sharp eye for behaviour and a sardonic sense of humour in his portrayals of such reprobates as Ignorance and Talkative; these moral types are endowed with the liveliness of individuals by a deft etching in of a few dominant features and gestures.
Co-starring Ray Liotta and erstwhile Sopranos moll Drea de Matteo, the 13-episode series is one of those gritty, moral-quandary-type shows, where she plays a single-mother NYPD detective who struggles with the obligations of her job.
DS: I don't know, there were certainly a lot of moral-conundrum-type things [in my work] to begin with – the Devil and God would appear – and my father is a fundamentalist Christian, so that inevitably had an effect on me.
Some years after Jameton's work was first published Judith Wilkinson [ 15] referred to what she called moral outrage, a type of ethical conflict in which the professional experiences a sense of impotence in the face of an immoral action performed by others.
We nevertheless want to make clear that due to the complexity of subjective experiences and moral meanings, the types of meanings cannot be exhausted by one study alone.
But it is unclear why a token member of a species, a token lacking any of these morally relevant capacities, should get the moral status from the type it belongs to (the species).
This type of moral hazard can be referred to as ex post moral hazard.
There are at least two ways of treating a moral judgment as a type of "linguistic entity": We could think of it as a type of sentence (generally, one that involves a moral predicate, such as "…is morally good" or "…is evil") or we could think of it as a type of speech act.
This embodies a type of moral panic, a phenomenon defined by Stanley Cohen, author of Folk Devils and Moral Panics, as anything "defined as a threat to societal values and interests".
