Moral Politics ( 1996, revisited in 2002 ) gives book-length consideration to the conceptual metaphors that Lakoff sees as present in the minds of American " liberals " and " conservatives ".

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 Politics has two different purposes as a book.

Lakoff wrote Moral Politics soon after the Republican Party's " Contract With America " takeover of Congress under the Clinton presidency, and his usage of the terms " liberal " and " conservative " is strongly resembles how those labels might have been used in the 1994 elections, the former having much to do with the Democratic party and the latter with the Republican party ; indeed, chapter 9, " Moral Categories in Politics ", presents Hillary Clinton as a prototypical " liberal " and Newt Gingrich as a prototypical " conservative ".

Given the importance of these concepts in Moral Politics, it is important to consider their meaning along with how each view suggests and is justified by a corresponding view of the nature of child rearing, morality, and justice.

Once titled Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't, it has been rechristened as Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think.

* Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't.

* Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think.

* The Moral Politics Test A political test inspired by the book.

A less extreme, but similar, claim is made by George Lakoff in his book Moral Politics and his later book on framing, Don't Think of an Elephant !.

* Lakoff, George ( 1995 ) Moral Politics.

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* Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics, Charles Scribner's Sons ( 1932 ), Westminster John Knox Press 2002: ISBN 0-664-22474-1 ;

" Moral Suasion Is Moral Balderdash ": Women, Politics, and Social Activism in the 1850s.

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The book could be compared with George Lakoff's Moral Politics, which aims to answer a very similar question.

"' Consumption as Moral Protagonism :' How Myth and Ideology Animate a Brand-Mediated Moral Conflict.

Moral Minds: How nature designed our universal sense of right and wrong.

Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy, " Appendix: How could ethics matter to economics?

* The Moral Center: How Progressives Can Unite America Around Our Shared Values ( Harcourt, 2006 ).

* Moral Literacy: Or How To Do The Right Thing ( 1992 ).

His other influential books include The Moral Dimension ( 1988 ), How Patriotic is the Patriot Act: Freedom Versus Security In the Age of Terrorism ( 2004 ) and From Empire to Community: A New Approach to International Relations ( 2004 ).

* The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.

Rushworth Moulton Kidder ( May 8, 1944 – March 5, 2012 ) founded the Institute for Global Ethics in 1990, and is the author of Moral Courage and How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living.

" How Psychopaths Threaten Moral Rationalism: Is It Irrational to Be Amoral?

* Versen, Christopher R. Optimistic Liberals: Herbert Spencer, the Brooklyn Ethical Association, and the Integration of Moral Philosophy and Evolution in the Victorian Trans-Atlantic Community.

`` The Moral Creed '' and `` The Will To Risk '' live happily together, if we do not examine where the line is to be drawn.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

A good reference, analyzing the methodological structure of casuistic argument, is The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning ( 1990 ), by Albert Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin ( ISBN 0-520-06960-9 ).

Therefore it is Excellent in the beginning ( Sīla — Moral principles ), Excellent in the middle ( Samadhi — Concentration ) and Excellent in the end ( Pańña — Wisdom ).

Moral psychology is a field of study that began, like most things, as an issue in philosophy and that is now properly considered part of the discipline of psychology.

Moral nihilists maintain that any talk of an objective morality is incoherent and better off using other terms.

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.

Moral and scientific thinking together do not suffice to understand human existence, so a further set of categories, governed by a norm of " authenticity ", is necessary to understand human existence.

Moral subjectivism is that species of moral relativism that relativizes moral value to the individual subject.

The Moral Majority was founded as being " pro-family ", " pro-life ", " pro-defense " and pro-Israel. The group is credited with delivering two thirds of the white, evangelical Christian vote to Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential election.

*** Moral realism ( in the robust sense ; see moral universalism for the minimalist sense ) holds that such propositions are about robust or mind-independent facts, that is, not facts about any person or group's subjective opinion, but about objective features of the world.

** Moral universalism ( or universal morality ) is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally, that is to all people regardless of culture, race, sex, religion, nationality, sexuality, or other distinguishing feature.

* Moral nihilism, also known as ethical nihilism, is the meta-ethical view that nothing is morally preferable to anything else.

*** Moral rationalism, also called ethical rationalism, is the view according to which moral truths ( or at least general moral principles ) are knowable a priori, by reason alone.

* Moral skepticism is the class of meta-ethical theories all members of which entail that no one has any moral knowledge.

Moral equivalence is a term used in political debate, usually to criticize any denial that a moral hierarchy can be assessed of two sides in a conflict, or in the actions or tactics of two sides.

Moral nihilism, also known as ethical nihilism, is the meta-ethical view that morality does not exist as something inherent to objective reality ; therefore no action is necessarily preferable to any other.

In his 2003 book, A Moral Reckoning, Daniel Goldhagen, asserts that Pius XII " chose again and again not to mention the Jews publicly .... public statements by Pius XII ... any mention of the Jews is conspicuously absent.

Moral Orel is another stop motion based show, along with Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, both created by Dino Stamatopoulos.

Just prior to this he wrote Theory of Moral Sentiments, explaining how it is humans function and interact through what he calls sympathy, setting up important context for The Wealth of Nations.

* In the Moral Orel television programme, Moralton's town library is named the Thomas Bowdler Library ; most of the library's books are censored ( Episode 2, " God's Greatest Gift ")