Known as a moralist, he judges his characters from the standpoint of traditional morality.
The requirement that moral judgements be universalizable seems to reflect two fundamental moral insights: first, that morality is objective, and not simply a matter of personal opinion or expression of interest and desire; and second, that from the standpoint of morality, each person matters just as much as, and no more than, any other person.
Yet the correlation between harboring such views, and acting on them through voting, or even in personal practice due to other influencing factors, has never been made conclusive, agreed Jon O'Brien, President of Catholics for Choice, a leading pro-choice organization from a standpoint of culture, faith and morality, in Washington, D.C.
Of course people may give their views on the morality of proposed legislation from their own religious standpoint, but if they do so, they must make it clear where they are coming from.
The first is that democracy is intrinsically valuable from the standpoint of a very basic principle of morality, namely, that all persons are entitled to equal consideration.
On this reading, Nietzsche was primarily concerned with questions of value and culture (especially the value of morality and its effect on culture), and his philosophical standpoint was acknowledged to be a deeply illiberal one: what matters are great human beings, not the "herd".
I believe that actively resisting people like Donald Trump is important from an ethical standpoint, but not everyone is as concerned with notions of morality, and fair enough.
Difference certainly does exist – in religion, in morality, in spirituality (in physics, where light is both particle and wave) – but our standpoint determines the perspective we adopt, which side of the prism we view at any given moment.
"From the standpoint of a ballplayer being brought in to discuss a nonbaseball issue of morality and ethics, I find it absolutely fascinating," said James L. Gates Jr., the director of the Hall of Fame's library.
