Kant's lectures on ethics address such wide-ranging issues of morality and religion as Kant's moral criticisms of atheism, the independence of morality from religion, the corrupting influence of counterfeit religious service on morality, and the absence of special duties to God.
Much of the work on the theory therefore has been directed towards defending it against moral criticisms, particularly from the point of view of 'commonsense' morality.
The Spectator, which appeared six days a week, from March 1, 1711, to December 6, 1712, offered a wide range of material to its readers, from discussion of the latest fashions to serious disquisitions on criticism and morality, including Addison's weekly papers on John Milton's Paradise Lost and the series on the "pleasures of the imagination".
In denying absolute moral values, Spinoza looks very much like a precursor of Nietzsche, who is well known for his criticism of morality – and, indeed, Nietzsche's view that we need to move "beyond good and evil" to a less moralistic understanding of value is clearly influenced by his reading of the Ethics.
If you accept it you have to consider the consequences of publicly contravening our new, post-Khashoggi social morality, and the angry criticism which will follow.
Yet Nietzsche also does not confine his criticisms of morality to some one religiously, philosophically, socially or historically circumscribed example.
If philosophy permitted no grounds for the rational criticism of one morality by another, then what was to stop the emergence of another Hitler?
Criticism of the morality of his actions has come from the top.
Outside the academy, Anderson's criticisms of conventional morality and his account of positive ethical goods promoting a stance of commitment, endeavour, risk and critical opposition to merely customary expectations was a powerful tonic for a small but influential group of anti-careerist intellectuals, lawyers, journalists and artists collectively known as the "Sydney Push".
One of her friends wrote a criticism of Hobart's morality play "Experience" and she wrote a scenario herself.
