*** 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 realism

* Moral realism is the class of theories which hold that there are true moral statements that report objective moral facts.

* Moral realism

Moral realism is the meta-ethical view which claims that:

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 realism allows the ordinary rules of logic ( modus ponens, etc.

Moral skepticism is particularly opposed to moral realism: the view that there are knowable, mind-independent moral truths.

This is true of some forms of Moral realism, which states that something can be wrong, even if every thinking person believes otherwise ( the idea of brute fact about morality ).

* Moral realism

# Moral realism, the view that there are objective facts of morality,

* Moral universalism ( also called minimal or moderate moral realism ), the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics or morality is universally valid, without any further semantic or metaphysical claim.

There is no recognized and official statement of Cornell realism ( Brink's Moral Realism and the Foundation of Ethics comes close ), but several theses are associated with the view.

Moral absolutism stands in contrast to other categories of normative ethical theories such as consequentialism, which holds that the morality ( in the wide sense ) of an act depends on the consequences or the context of the act.

In 1834 he was appointed White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, and despite much university opposition, Regius Professor of Divinity in 1836.

* Moral opposition to wars

* Moral opposition to the Vietnam War in particular

** 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 relativism maintains that all moral judgments have their origins either in societal or in individual standards, and that no single objective standard exists by which one can assess the truth of a moral proposition.

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

There are also surviving works On Moral Characters, On Sensation, On Stones, and fragments on Physics and Metaphysics all written in Greek.

Falwell insisted the Moral Majority leadership also include Catholics and Jews, although not all members of the leadership approved of this inclusion.

* The Moral Majority ’ s leaders were in frequent communication with its constituents, enabling consistent messages to resonate throughout all levels of hierarchy.

Moral universalism ( also called moral objectivism or universal morality ) is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally, that is, for " all similarly situated individuals ", regardless of culture, race, sex, religion, nationality, sexuality, or any other distinguishing feature.

* Long, J., Gray, J., An Enquiry into the Origin of the Human Appetites and Affections, Shewing how Each arises from Association, with an account of the Entrance of Moral Evil to the world, to which are added Some remarks on the independent Scheme which deduces all Obligation on God ’ s part and Mans from certain abstract Relations, Truth, & c. Written for the Use of the young Gentlemen at the Universities, W. Wood, ( Lincoln ), 1747 reprint: pp. 281 – 476 in McReynolds, P. ( ed ), Four Early Works on Motivation, Scholar ’ s Facsimiles & Reprints, ( Gainesville ), 1969

He says: ' The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in her and asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved ' ( Moral.

" Moral skepticism " denotes a class of metaethical theories all members of which entail that no one has any moral knowledge.

Moral error theory is a position characterized by its commitment to two propositions: ( i ) all moral claims are false and ( ii ) we have reason to believe that all moral claims are false.

Buer teaches Natural and Moral Philosophy, Logic, and the virtues of all herbs and plants.

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 truth cannot be gleaned because Ambrosio was destroyed by spiritual beings, and no earthly being can sufficiently oppose the “ power and cunning of supernatural beings .” Scenes of grotesquery and horror abound, which are a proof of “ a low and vulgar taste .” The character of Ambrosio is “ impossible ... contrary to nature .” Coleridge argues that the most “ grievous fault ... for which no literary excellence can atone ” is that “ our author has contrived to make of enchantments and witchcraft ‘ ‘ pernicious ’ ‘, by blending, with an irreverent negligence, all that is most awfully true in religion with all that is most ridiculously absurd in superstition ,” commenting with the immortal line that “ the Monk is a romance, which if a parent saw in the hands of a son or daughter, he might reasonably turn pale .” Coleridge finishes the piece by explaining that he was “ induced to pay particular attention to this work, from the unusual success which it has experienced ” and that “ the author is a man of rank and fortune.

Moral standards were very high at the school, and all pupils were required to attend church every Sunday and to be in their rooms at 7: 30 pm except on Fridays evenings which were reserved for social activities.

One powerful opponent from the upper classes ( Diaz del Moral ) claims that " the total working population " was overcome with the spirit of revolt, that " all were agitators.

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.

A " History and Moral philosophy " instructor in the Army says " personal freedom for all is greatest in history, laws are few, taxes are low, living standards are as high as productivity permits, crime is at its lowest ebb.

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

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.

* Moral character, an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities

The term " consequentialism " was coined by G. E. M. Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

In The Moral Point of View, Kurt Baier objects that ethical egoism provides no moral basis for the resolution of conflicts of interest, which, in his opinion, form the only vindication for a moral code.

Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

Moral epistemology, the part of epistemology ( and / or ethics ) that studies how we know moral facts and how moral beliefs are justified, has proposed an answer.

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

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.

*** 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 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.

Kirkpatrick published an article called The Myth of Moral Equivalence in 1986, in which sharply criticized those who she alleged were claiming that there was " no moral difference " between the Soviet Union and democratic states.

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.

Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly contrived.