The argument clearly depends on the assumption that if " good " were definable, it would be an analytic truth about " good ," an assumption many contemporary moral realists like Richard Boyd and Peter Railton reject.

Aretaic moral theories such as contemporary virtue ethics emphasize the role of character in morality.

See Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for discussion of contemporary support vs. opposition to the bombings, on both moral and military grounds.

The most prominent and widespread moral code to be found in the contemporary pagan movement is the Wiccan Rede, which states that those who follow it should " do as you will, as long as you harm none ".

Three approaches have been influential in contemporary moral and political philosophy, and these approaches are reflected in normative theories of law:

* Aretaic moral theories such as contemporary virtue ethics emphasize the role of character in morality.

Most contemporary Unitarian Christians believe that one's personal moral convictions guide one's political activities, and that a secular society is the most viable, just and fair.

Bohumil Hrabal became the most prominent of the contemporary prose authors, with his works full of colloquialisms and non-traditional narrative structures, and the absence of official moral frameworks.

Between the 11th century and 15th centuries medieval writers often used the word shivalry, in meanings that changed over time, generally moving from the concrete meaning of " status or fee associated with military follower owning a war horse " towards the moral ideal of the Christian warrior ethos propagated in the Romance genre which became popular by the 12th century, and the ideal of courtly love propagated in the contemporary Minnesang and related genres.

He continued to produce vividly written works that challenged contemporary American cultural values and moral attitudes.

Thomas Warton, the eighteenth century critic, considered Wyatt ' confessedly an inferior ' to his contemporary Henry Howard, and that Wyatt's ' genius was of the moral and didactic species and be deemed the first polished English satirist '.

The underpinnings for the contemporary moral panic were found in a rise of five factors in the years leading up to the 1980s: The establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity and political organization of the Moral Majority ; the rise of the Anti-cult movement which spread ideas of abusive cults kidnapping and brainwashing children and teens ; the appearance of the Church of Satan and other explicitly Satanist groups that added a kernel of truth to the existence of Satanic cults ; the appearance of the child abuse industry and a group of professionals dedicated to the protection of children ; and the popularization of posttraumatic stress disorder, repressed memory and corresponding survivor movement.

As a young adult, she visited her contemporary, the Roman Emperor Maxentius, and attempted to convince him of the moral error in persecuting Christians for not worshipping idols.

Plantinga's defense has received wide acceptance among contemporary philosophers when addressing moral evil.

The historical association of subjectivism with moral anti-realism in large part explains why the robust model of moral realism has been dominant — even if only implicitly — both in the traditional and contemporary philosophical literature on metaethics.

* The Life and Death of Pomponius Atticus written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornelius Nepos ; Translated out of his fragments, together with observations political and moral thereon ( 1677 );

" The moral of the story would still hold if the parable originally followed the priest-Levite-Israelite sequence of contemporary Jewish stories, as Halévy suggested.

Save the Tiger is a 1973 film about moral conflict in contemporary America.

Many critics of contemporary anti-prostitution activism argue that much of the current concern about human trafficking and its more general conflation with prostitution and other forms of sex work have all the hallmarks of a moral panic.

Maya Deren had a passionate sense of social commitment and moral purpose that distinguished her from the less favorable values of the entertainment industry ; from the indifferent, ironic attitudes of her surrealist and dada predecessors ; from the cool, hip attitudes of her Beat successors ; from the passive aesthetic of stylized filmmakers ; and from the pretentious attitudes of contemporary film theorists.

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

Hume's anti-rationalism has been very influential, and defended in contemporary philosophy of action by neo-Humeans such as Michael Smith and Simon Blackburn.

Nevertheless, these oppositions, inherited from Greek philosophy, are now ambiguous because contemporary governments have mixed democratic, oligarchic, and monarchic elements.

Jacques Derrida has had a huge influence on contemporary political theory and political philosophy.

Guayaquil, despite being destroyed on several occasions by fire and incessantly plagued by either yellow fever or malaria, was a center of vigorous trade among the colonies, a trade that was technically illegal under the mercantilist philosophy of the contemporary Spanish rulers.

He had a wide-reaching influence on contemporary economics, politics, philosophy, sociology, psychology and anthropology.

Some contemporary texts still describe Ebbinghaus as a philosopher rather than a psychologist and he had also spent his life as a professor of philosophy.

Some contemporary Theravadin figures have thus indicated a sympathetic stance toward the Mahayana philosophy found in the Heart Sutra and the Fundamental Stanzas on the Middle Way.

A critical account of Popper's thought, viewed from the perspective of contemporary analytic philosophy.

* Neoliberalism, a contemporary free-market political-economic philosophy

" It retains an important place in the history of Analytic philosophy as the antecedent of contemporary philosophies, such as Constructive empiricism, Positivism, and Postpositivism.

The use and meaning of the word " philosophy " has changed throughout history: in Antiquity it encompassed almost any inquiry ; for Descartes it was supposed to be the Queen of the Sciences, a sort of ultimate justification ; in the time of David Hume " metaphysics " and " morals " could be roughly translated as the human sciences ; and contemporary analytic philosophy likes to define itself roughly as inquiry into concepts.

However, some schools of contemporary philosophy such as the pragmatists and naturalistic epistemologists argue that philosophy should be linked to science and should be scientific in the broad sense of that term, " preferring to see philosophical reflection as continuous with the best practice of any field of intellectual enquiry ".

Recently, some philosophers have cast doubt about intuition as a basic tool in philosophical inquiry, from Socrates up to contemporary philosophy of language.

Moore's open question argument against what he considered the naturalistic fallacy was largely responsible for the birth of meta-ethical research in contemporary analytic philosophy.

In contemporary analytic philosophy, the issue of subject — and more specifically the " point of view " of the subject, or " subjectivity " -- has received attention as one of the major intractable problems in philosophy of mind ( a related issue being the mind-body problem ).

It is set in an Earthlike world ( perhaps in an alternate reality ), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.

The exact forms of what later came to be called Judaism during the times of Moses or during the eras of the Mishnah and Talmud cannot be known today, but Orthodox Jews believe that contemporary Orthodox Judaism maintains the same basic philosophy and legal framework that existed throughout Jewish history, whereas the other denominations depart from it.

In contemporary philosophy, physicalism is most frequently associated with the mind-body problem in philosophy of mind, regarding which physicalism holds that all that has been ascribed to " mind " is more correctly ascribed to " brain " or the activity of the brain.

In this vein, he asserted that it was the task of contemporary philosophy to recover the original question of ( or " openness to ") Dasein ( translated as Being or Being-in-the-World ) present in the Presocratic philosophers but normalized, neutered and standardized since Plato.

He quickly gained attention as an eloquent motivational speaker, and is often regarded today as the forerunner of such contemporary " success coaches " as Anthony Robbins.