In Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen conclude that issues in machine ethics will likely drive advancement in understanding of human ethics by forcing us to address gaps in modern normative theory and by providing a platform for experimental investigation.

Moral intuition is supposed to be a mental process different from other, more familiar faculties like sense-perception, and that moral judgments are its outputs.

* Catholic Encyclopedia " Fear ( from a Moral Standpoint )"

The " liberal arts " or " liberal pursuits " ( Latin liberalia studia ) were already so called in formal education during the Roman Empire ; for example, Seneca the Younger discusses liberal arts in education from a critical Stoic point of view in Moral Epistle 88.

Moral nihilism must be distinguished from moral relativism, which does allow for moral statements to be true or false in a non-universal sense, but does not assign any static truth-values to moral statements.

The term originates from a 1906 address by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War, subsequently published in essay form in 1910.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

* Rosen, Frederick, Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill ( Routledge Studies in Ethics & Moral Theory ), 2003.

Mars apparently emerged as a refuge from the fascist censorship laws of Earth, until the arrival of a government organization referred to only as " Moral Climates " and their enforcement divisions, the " Dismantlers " and " Burning Crew ".

Between 2003 and 2008, Lakoff was involved with a progressive think tank, the Rockridge Institute, an involvement that follows in part from his recommendations in Moral Politics.

Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors, Lakoff has given numerous public lectures and written accounts of his message from Moral Politics.

Moral relativism has been espoused, criticized, and debated for thousands of years, from ancient Greece and India down to the present day, in diverse fields including philosophy, science, and religion.

* R. E. M., in the song " Moral Kiosk " from the album Murmur

# The metaphysical thesis: Moral propositions are true when actions and other objects of moral assessment have the relevant moral properties ( so that the relevant moral facts obtain ), where these facts and properties are robust: their metaphysical status, whatever it is, is not relevantly different from that of ( certain types of ) ordinary non-moral facts and properties.

The state chapters of the Moral Majority were financially independent from the national organization and relied on local resources to conduct their activities.

Reagan sought the input from the Moral Majority leadership during his campaign and appointed the Rev.

Moral hazard is the prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.

Bain was also Examiner in Logic and Moral Philosophy from 1857 – 1862 and 1864 – 1869 for the University of London and also an Instructor in Moral Science for the Indian Civil Service examinations.

In 1726 he published A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion, chiefly designed to show that, while a love of virtue for its own sake is the highest principle of morality, religious rewards and punishments are most valuable, and in some cases absolutely indispensable, as sanctions of conduct.

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

In 1947, while promoting his " Moral ABC " at the University of Chicago, Bronner was arrested and committed to a mental hospital in Elgin, Illinois, from which he escaped after shock treatments.

ISBN 0-8091-2159-X complete English translations of Orot ha-Teshuva (" The Lights of Penitence "), Musar Avicha (" The Moral Principles "), as well as selected translations from Orot ha-Kodesh (" The Lights of Holiness ") and miscellaneous essays, letters, and poems.

* Moral Arguments at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

" Moral Motivation ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Edward N. Zalta ( ed .).

* Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Moral Skepticism, " Skeptical Hypotheses "

" Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta ( ed .).

In recent years, Edmund Jephcott and Stanford University Press have published new translations of some of Adorno's lectures and books, including Introduction to Sociology, Problems of Moral Philosophy and his transcribed lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Aristotle's " Metaphysics ", and a new translation of the Dialectic of Enlightenment.

" Moral Skepticism ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta ( ed .).

* Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Moral Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism

* Moral Responsibility ( also on praise and blame ), in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

" Moral Character ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( Fall Edition ), Edward N. Zalta ( ed .).

* Moral Cognitivism vs. Non-Cognitivism in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

" Moral Skepticism ," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta ( ed .).

" Moral Cognitivism vs. Non-Cognitivism ," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta ( ed .).

" Moral Reasoning ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( Fall Edition ), Edward N. Zalta ( ed .).

* Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches-an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( SEP ).

* Moral Luck-an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

The camp's namesake and inspiration was the pragmatic philosopher, William James, who delivered an influential address at Stanford University in 1906 with the title, " The Moral Equivalent of War ".

* Moral Cognitivism vs. Non-Cognitivism-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry by Mark van Roojen.

* Moral Relativism entry in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy

' An Epistle to a Lady ( Moral Essay II )', The Literary Encyclopedia.

" Moral Realism ", The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fieser & Dowden ( eds .).

* Moral Skepticism-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.

* Moral Epistemology-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry by Richmond Campbell.

* Moral Reasoning-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry by Henry S. Richardson.

" Moral Character ", The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, J. Fieser & B. Dowden ( eds .).

The Jewish Encyclopedia of Moral and Ethical Issues ", Jason Aronson, 1994