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

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.

Practically speaking, such critics will argue that meta-ethical relativism may amount to Moral nihilism, or else incoherence.

Moral universalism is opposed to moral nihilism and moral relativism.

Moral skepticism divides into three subclasses: moral error theory ( or moral nihilism ), epistemological moral skepticism, and noncognitivism.

* Moral nihilism

* Moral nihilism ( amoralism )

* Moral nihilism

Moral nihilism ( also known as ethical nihilism or amoralism ) is the meta-ethical view that nothing is intrinsically moral or immoral.

Moral nihilism is distinct from moral relativism, which does allow for moral statements to be true or false in a non-objective sense, but does not assign any static truth-values to moral statements, and of course moral universalism, which holds moral statements to be objectively true or false.

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Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, commented on the necessity of coercion in preserving the course of justice by warning, " Moral reason must learn how to make coercion its ally without running the risk of a Pyrrhic victory in which the ally exploits and negates the triumph.

# Justification: Moral excuse used to explain … " I must have it!

Moral and political positions are possible, but one must first describe the network before taking up such positions.

Moral Re-Armament must become for us Muslims as much an incentive as it is for you Christians and for all nations.

Moral Re-Armament must become for us Muslims as much an incentive as it is for you Christians and for all nations.

In that respect it must have resembled Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One, from c. 1608 – 13, a play in the John Fletcher canon in which Fletcher wrote the last two parts of the quartet, while another playwright, most likely Nathan Field, wrote the others.

Moral Re-Armament must become for us Muslims just as much an incentive as it is for you Christians and for all nations.

" In December that year President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia declared: " The world must be told what Moral Re-Armament has done for our country.

Moral principle must dominate in all fields.

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

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.

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 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 equivalence " began to be used as a polemic term-of-retort to " moral relativism ", which had been gaining use as an indictment against political foreign policy that appeared to use only a situation-based application of widely-held ethical standards.

Many objections to non-cognitivism based on the linguistic characteristics of what purport to be moral judgments were originally raised by Peter Glassen in " The Cognitivity of Moral Judgments ", published in Mind in January 1959, and in Glassen's follow-up article in the January 1963 issue of the same journal.

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.

* 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 ).

The University of Glasgow, where Smith was Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy, changed the name of its Department of Political Economy to the Department of Economics ( ostensibly to avoid confusing prospective undergraduates ) in academic year 1997 – 98, making the class of 1998 the last to be graduated with a Scottish Master of Arts degree in Political Economy.

Moral relativism may be any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures.

In 1731, Pope published his " Epistle to Burlington ", on the subject of architecture, the first of four poems which would later be grouped under the title Moral Essays ( 1731 – 35 ).

Moral absolutism may be understood in a strictly secular context, as in many forms of deontological moral rationalism.

Moral bravery involves acting in a way that enhances what one believes to be good in spite of social disapproval and possible backlash.

The only major work that Richardson would write would be A Collection of the Moral and Instruction Sentiments, Maxims, Cautions, and Reflexions, contained in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison.

In the second episode of the Adult Swim series Moral Orel, the book is one of many to be burned by the censorious town librarian, who uses a copy of Last Temptation as a makeshift torch.

Moral constructivists like John Rawls and Christine Korsgaard may also be realists in this minimalist sense ; the latter describes her own position as procedural realism.

Moral truths cannot be observed in the same way as material facts ( which are objective ), so it seems odd to count them in the same category.

Moral: don ’ t listen to evil silver-tongued counselors ; don ’ t marry a man for his rank, or a woman for her money ; don ’ t frequent foolish auctions and masquerade balls unknown to your husband ; don ’ t have wicked companions abroad and neglect your wife, otherwise you will be run through the body, and ruin will ensue, and disgrace, and Tyburn.

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.

Nationally, the Moral Majority encouraged electoral participation among its members and used registration drives to register church-goers to vote, with the logic that Moral Majority members would be likely to vote for Moral Majority-endorsed candidates, thus strengthening the organization ’ s electoral efficacy and strengthening its endorsements.

Despite commonality in religious identification, however, evangelical Christians in general and eventually the newly-formed Moral Majority in particular would come to be disappointed with Carter ’ s policies.