Adam Smith, one of the earliest classical economists, refers to public opinion in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, but it was Jeremy Bentham, the famous utilitarian Philosopher, who fully developed theories of public opinion.

Moral character primarily refers to the assemblage of qualities that distinguish one individual from another — although on a cultural level, the set of moral behaviors to which a social group adheres can be said to unite and define it culturally as distinct from others.

On a 2004 episode of the HBO drama The Wire titled " Moral Midgetry ", Baltimore Police Detectives Jimmy McNulty and Kima Greggs leave Baltimore for Virginia where McNulty derogatorily refers to the southern sheriff as Buford Pusser.

The lyric " down with the moral majority " from the chorus refers to the now dissolved socially conservative American organization called the Moral Majority.

Moral competence refers to the ability to carefully consider both the consequences and prior believes in determining how morally wrong or right or wrong are one ’ s actions.

*** 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 relativists deny that there is any kind of objective standard for justice in general.

Soon, Moral Majority became a general term for the conservative political activism of evangelists and fundamentalists such as Pat Robertson, James Robinson, and Jerry Falwell.

* The general public was amenable to the issues the Moral Majority emphasized.

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.

In particular, Carter did not actively oppose his party ’ s general pro-choice platform on abortion, nor did Carter work to bridge the church-state divide, both factors in the Moral Majority ’ s decision to support Ronald Reagan ’ s candidacy in 1980.

Early religious expression in Chautauqua was usually of a general nature, comparable to the later Moral Re-Armament movement.

Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc was elected on 29 November 2004, into the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, in the general section.

He later founded his own political party, the Moral Vanguard of the Fatherland, and in 2009 was again a candidate for the Panamanian general elections.

Originally entitled the " Professorship of Moral Theology or Casuisticall Divinity ", with the holder often known as simply the " Professor of Casuistry ", the scope of the professorship was officially broadened from merely moral to general philosophy under its present name in 1965.

The Rome Program includes a continuation of the College's core curriculum program for juniors ( PHIL 301 Medieval Philosophy and THEO 301 Moral Theology during the Fall ; PHIL 302 Modern Philosophy and THEO 302 Apologetics in the spring ), as well as courses in Italian, Roman Art & Architecture, and a general catch all course that highlights Rome as a center of culture.

In 1720 his brother Lewis, in what may be a formal letter to the vicar-general of the Bishop of Apt, contradicted a report that Thomas had concurred in an appeal to a general council against the condemnation of Pasquier Quesnel's ‘ Moral Reflections ’ by Pope Clement XI.

Moral hazard arises because an individual or institution does not take the full consequences and responsibilities of its actions, and therefore has a tendency to act less carefully than it otherwise would, leaving another party to hold some responsibility for the consequences of those actions.

His successor, Jackie Maxwell, has strived to program increasingly with a view to a younger audience, a tendency evident, for example, in her programming of Ann-Marie MacDonald's Belle Moral in the 2005 season.

Moral education should exploit this natural human tendency for moral evaluation by presenting the students with historical examples of good and evil actions.

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.

** 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.

In recent years, Edmund Jephcott and Stanford University Press have published new translations of some of Adorno's lectures and books, including Introduction to Sociology, Problems of Moral Philosophy and his transcribed lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Aristotle's " Metaphysics ", and a new translation of the Dialectic of Enlightenment.

In his book, The Moral Landscape, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris mentions some ways that determinism and modern scientific understanding might challenge the idea of a contra-causal free will.

Gauthier is the author of numerous articles, some of the most important of which are collected in Moral Dealing, and several books including Practical Reasoning, The Logic of Leviathan, Morals by Agreement, and Rousseau: The Social and the Solitary.

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.

In 1726 he published A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion, chiefly designed to show that, while a love of virtue for its own sake is the highest principle of morality, religious rewards and punishments are most valuable, and in some cases absolutely indispensable, as sanctions of conduct.

A perceived trend of increasing Islamophobia during the 2000s has been attributed by some commentators to the September 11 attacks, while others associate it with the rapidly growing Muslim populations in the Western world, especially in Western Europe, due to both immigration and high fertility rate. Moral panics and " racist " campaigns against Muslims have been increasing in Australia since the mid 1990s.

Moral panics are considered to include some persecutions of individuals or groups, such as the Red Scare, antisemitic pogroms, Stalinist purges, the witch-hunts of Renaissance Europe.

In Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Cohen outlines some of the criticisms that have arisen in response to moral panic theory.

Unless the law and the regulators have some effective means to hold those responsible to account, the Moral Hazard would be expected to continue to future building projects.

Moral rights are usually considered to be a matter for the national laws of the Member States, although some countries classify some of the above rights, especially the right of communication to the public, among the moral rights of the author rather than under his rights of exploitation.

Moral rights are rights of creators of copyrighted works generally recognized in civil law jurisdictions and, to a lesser extent, in some common law jurisdictions.

Several letters from More to John Worthington are printed in Worthington's Diary, and some Letters Philosophical and Moral between John Norris and Henry More are added to Norris's Theory and Regulation of Love, 1688.

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 combat between Alf, James and Ivy, as Alf keeps developing schemes in order to achieve some fortune ( and usually fails ) and James and Ivy try to stop his actions ;

* " Moral framework ": Belief in God, for example, is seen by some to be necessary for moral behavior.

Moral philosophers differ as to the origin of moral obligation, and whether such obligations are external to the agent ( that is, are, in some sense, objective and applicable to all agents ) or are internal ( that is, are based on the agent's personal desires, upbringing, conscience, and so on ).

Moral agency is a person's ability to make moral judgments based on some commonly-held notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions.

Moral naturalists prefer to define " morality " in terms of observables, some even appealing to a science of morality.

After some years of hesitation he resolved to be ordained, and in 1802 he passed with great distinction the examination for candidatus theologiae, and attracted the regard of FV Reinhard, author of the System der christlichen Moral ( 1788 – 1815 ), then court-preacher at Dresden, who became his warm friend and patron during the remainder of his life.

* 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.

Though Wright clearly does not posit an answer to the question of struggles among economic classes — whether they be because of or in spite of natural selection — some argue it is relevant to Wright's treatment of evolution as resulting in greater and greater moral progress, and thus strangely ignored, given that Wright is the author of another book examining human morality ( The Moral Animal ).