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[4] [5] He goes so far as to suggest that "no amount of pleasure is equal to any amount of virtue, that in fact virtue belongs to a higher order of value". [ 3 ] : 150 Values can also be compared within each category, for example, well-grounded knowledge of general principles is more valuable than weakly grounded knowledge of isolated matters ...
Religion is a form of controlling people: [53] one man-machine wants to achieve power over another. Even the term "freedom," very often used by theologians, in its positive sense actually means "power." [5] Religion is by no means more "fulfilling the will of God" than anything else. As God is primary and almighty, his will is by definition ...
Nietzsche condemns the triumph of slave morality in the West, saying that the democratic movement is the "collective degeneration of man". [9] He claims that the nascent democratic movement of his time was essentially slavish and weak. [citation needed] Weakness conquered strength, slave conquered master, re-sentiment conquered sentiment.
The Drunkard's Progress: by Nathaniel Currier 1846, warns that moderate drinking leads, step-by-step, to total disaster.. Moralism is a philosophy that arose in the 19th century that concerns itself with imbuing society with a certain set of morals, usually traditional behaviour, but also "justice, freedom, and equality". [1]
Rawls' theory of justice rests on the belief that individuals are free, equal, and moral; he regarded all human beings as possessing some degree of reasonableness and rationality, which he saw as the constituents of morality and entitling their possessors to equal justice.
The latter finding suggests that the direction of causality is the opposite of what moral foundations theorists assume: moral judgments are produced by motivated reasoning anchored in political beliefs, rather than political beliefs being produced by moral intuitions.
The way Kant suggests that we should deal with this dialectic is through an appeal to the two perspectives we can take on ourselves. This is the same sort of move he made earlier in this section. On one perspective, the perspective of the world of understanding, we are free, whereas from the other, the perspective of the world of the senses or ...
"The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life" was an essay by the philosopher William James, which he first delivered as a lecture to the Yale Philosophical Club, in 1891.