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  2. The Right and the Good - Wikipedia

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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 of fact.

  3. Moral foundations theory - Wikipedia

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    Haidt and Graham suggest a compromise can be found to allow liberals and conservatives to see eye-to-eye. [45] They suggest that the five foundations can be used as "doorway" to allow liberals to step to the conservative side of the "wall" put up between these two political affiliations on major political issues (e.g. legalizing gay marriage).

  4. Moralism - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Kantian ethics - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ...

  7. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    The quotation "all men are created equal" is found in the United States Declaration of Independence and is a phrase that has come to be seen as emblematic of America's founding ideals.

  8. Morality - Wikipedia

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    Allegory with a portrait of a Venetian senator (Allegory of the morality of earthly things), attributed to Tintoretto, 1585 Morality (from Latin moralitas ' manner, character, proper behavior ') is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper, or right, and those that are improper, or wrong. [1]

  9. The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life - Wikipedia

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    The gist of this section is the contention that to be good, something has to be desired, by some sentient being. A world of only rocks would have no good or bad.