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.
Known as a moralist, he judges his characters from the standpoint of traditional morality.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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".
This is a helpful standpoint to take as it allows us to advance the idea that an information technology of morality and ethics is not impossible.
On the Genealogy of Morality.
It's got a kind of morality".
It defies any code of morality.
