The phrase "understanding of morality" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person's grasp of a moral concept. For example: "John's deep understanding of morality proves that he is a great leader."
He also thinks this understanding of morality has important things to tell us about politics.
The group, he wrote, has "an understanding of morality which directly contradicts Catholic teaching".
Ultimately, I think our understanding of neurobiology and evolutionary biology and psychology will reduce our understanding of morality to some well-defined biological constructs.
Acts that are "faith-based" stand a good chance of being beneficial to humanity, but not a better chance than acts that are skepticism-based--that is, grounded in an understanding of morality that does not rely on fear (or love) of divine authority (or any other kind of authority, for that matter).
Biological analysis may enrich our understanding of morality, but it is also limited.
Scientific understanding of morality as an evolved form of behavior is now fairly robust.
The scholar went on: "I think we have to be very careful about applying 20th-century understandings of morality to the morality of the 15th century".
But all agree that an adequate metaethics should not be totally reformist; it should be congruent with common understandings of morality.
Antemann's contemporary approach to the historic medium forces the viewer to reflect on how social etiquettes and our understandings of morality have changed over the years.
All three types of project have broadly to do with how neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory might bear on our understanding of ethics or morality.
Many non-virtual ethical approaches put forward theories of virtue, and what distinguishes them from virtue ethics is that the given theory of virtue comes later in the order of explanation, rather than itself serving as the basis for understanding (all of) morality.
