Sentence examples for principles of Morals from inspiring English sources

An Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals (1750) treats morality as independent of religion and criticizes many traditional Christian virtues (section 9, part 1, 73 74).

The Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals is a refinement of Hume's thinking on morality, in which he views sympathy as the fact of human nature lying at the basis of all social life and personal happiness.

Hume's "Principles of Morals" lacks beauty, passion, and drama.

[2] Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals in "Enquires Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals," ed.

Hume, in "An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals" (1751), tries to put a little muscle into Hutcheson's pleasant ideas.

Bentham's Fragment, on Government (1776) and Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) elaborated a utilitarian political philosophy.

For the most part, they are rejected, on a theory that is as casually accepted in criminal justice as it is offensive to principles of moral philosophy.

Among his other works are The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic, 3 vol. (1783), and Principles of Moral and Political Science, 2 vol. (1792).

Paley's most important works were The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785), the subject of lectures at the University of Cambridge; A View of the Evidence of Christianity (1794), which was required reading for entrance to Cambridge until the 20th century; and Natural Theology (1802), based on John Ray's Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation (1691).

The principles of moral reasoning and discourse require effective causation in order to realize agency.

As with Hume's Treatise, so also Turnbull's Principles of Moral Philosophy, published in 1740 (the year of publication of Bk.