According to Stanley Cohen, author of Folk Devils and Moral Panics ( 1972 ) and credited as creator of the term, a moral panic occurs when " condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests ".

" This calculus occurs in the Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil, sect.

The first appearance of the invisible hand in Smith occurs in The Theory of Moral Sentiments ( 1759 ) in Part IV, Chapter 1, where he describes a selfish landlord as being led by an invisible hand to distribute his harvest to those who work for him: " The proud and unfeeling landlord views his extensive fields, and without a thought for the wants of his brethren, in imagination consumes himself the whole harvest ... the capacity of his stomach bears no proportion to the immensity of his desires ... the rest he will be obliged to distribute among those, who prepare, in the nicest manner, that little which he himself makes use of, among those who fit up the palace in which this little is to be consumed, among those who provide and keep in order all the different baubles and trinkets which are employed in the economy of greatness ; all of whom thus derive from his luxury and caprice, that share of the necessaries of life, which they would in vain have expected from his humanity or his justice ... The rich ... are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society ..."

Moral Psychology can be broken into two divisions: moralization that occurs individually and moralization that becomes institutionalized.

* James Hamilton contended that the gold standard may be susceptible to speculative attacks when a government's financial position appears weak, although others contend that this very threat discourages governments ' engaging in risky policy ( see Moral Hazard ).

But when I met it in James ' ' The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life ,' it was with a shock of recognition.

# 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 origins of the Moral Majority can be traced to 1976, when Jerry Falwell embarked on a series of “ I Love America ” rallies across the country to raise awareness of social issues important to Falwell.

The Moral Majority ’ s financial base seriously eroded when it became part of the Liberty Federation and financial difficulties ultimately were a major factor in the decision to disband the organization.

Leaders within the Moral Majority asked ministers give their congregants political direction, reminding congregants when to vote, who to vote for, and why the Moral Majority held particular positions on issues.

Moral order and good triumph however when the motoring Warbucks descends on the farm one day looking for a refreshing glass of water and fortuitously discovers Annie.

Moral hazard can be divided into two types when it involves asymmetric information ( or lack of verifiability ) of the outcome of a random event.

Moral hazard can occur when upper management is shielded from the consequences of poor decision making.

After a childhood spent in an austerity which stigmatized as unholy even the novels of Sir Walter Scott, he began his college career at the age of fourteen at a time when Christopher North and Dr Ritchie were lecturing on Moral Philosophy and Logic.

In 1811, when he proclaimed himself king, Henri I of Haiti awarded himself the title, " Défenseur de la Foi ", and incorporated it into his full style, which translates from the French original as: By the grace of God and the constitutional law of the state, King of Haiti, Sovereign of Tortuga, Gonâve and other adjacent Islands, Destroyer of Tyranny, Regenerator and Benefactor of the Haitian Nation, Creator of her Moral, Political and Martial Institutions, First Crowned Monarch of the New World, Defender of the Faith, founder of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Henry.

During the war, there was also controversy over British members of Moral Re-Armament working in the USA when they would have been eligible for call-up in the UK.

Clare illustrated Shaw's Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners in Prose ( 1949 ), and the posthumously published My Dear Dorothea: A practical system of Moral education for females Embodied in a letter to a young person Of that sex ( 1956 ), written when he was 21.

Moral courage may also require physical courage when the consequences are punishment or other bodily peril.

Hank González's political career began when he moved from Atlacomulco to Toluca to take charge of the State of Mexico's Departmento de Escuelas Secundarias y Profesionales ( Department of Professional and Secondary Schools ) as well as the Oficina de Juntas de Mejoramiento Moral, Cívico y Material ( Office of Committees for Moral, Civic and Material Improvement ) between 1952 and 1953.

Dr. Roos is now President of Copenhagen Business School and Dr. Bart Victor is Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership at Vanderbilt University but when they created serious play they were both professors at IMD in Switzerland.

Moral authority became military authority shortly thereafter when his son, Goukouni Oueddei, became one of the leaders of the Second Liberation Army of FROLINAT.

He wrote a number of minor religious works: Des Moeurs et des Doctrines du Rationalisme en France (" Of the Moral Customs and Doctrines of Rationalism in France ", 1839 ) was a tract within the cultural stream of the Counter-Enlightenment.

* Des Moeurs et des Doctrines du Rationalisme en France ( Of the Moral Customs and Doctrines of Rationalism in France ), 1839

* Histoire du progrès des gens en Europe depuis la paix de Westphalie jusqu ' au congres de Vienne, avec un précis historique du droit des gens européens avant la paix de Westphalie, written in 1838 for a prize offered by the French Academy of Moral and Political Science, and translated in 1845 by W. B. Lawrence as A History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America.

`` 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 ")