** 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 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.

* Moral absolutism, the position that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are either good or evil, regardless of the context of the act

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.

( 2000 ), Impression Management and the use of procedures at the Ritz-Carlton: Moral standards and dramaturgical discipline, Communication Studies, 51.

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.

This film was promoted by Moral Re-Armament ( MRA ), a multi-faith organisation promoting absolute moral and ethical standards of behaviour, to which Hunte committed the remainder of his life.

Moral philosopher Douglas Groothuis says Satin's vision is unsound because it lacks an absolute standard of good and evil.

* Moral: An absolute certainty.

* H K Twitchell-Executive director of Moral Re-Armament, an international religious movement founded in 1938 in London, where it was founded to reshape the world through absolute morality.

In the chapter On the Development of the Intellectual and Moral Faculties During Primeval and Civilised Times of The descent of man ( 1871 ) Charles Darwin set out to explain the origin of human morality in order to show that there was no absolute gap between man and animals.

* Moral laws-on murder, theft, honesty, adultery, etc.

" Moral Courage: Is defending The Bell Curve an example of intellectual honesty?

Moral purity is the result of true freedom.

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.

The most well known book from this age is the Bihari Satsai of Bihari, a collection of Dohas ( couplets ), dealing with Bhakti ( devotion ), Neeti ( Moral policies ) and Shringar ( love ).

Moral aridity, the hypocrisy of contemporary life, and the substantial incapability of people finding happiness in traditional ways such as love and marriage are the regnant themes in the works of Alberto Moravia.

Falwell, though, gave a more optimistic public opinion about the Moral Majority ’ s dissolution.

Generally, he speaks as if we had a direct consciousness of mind as distinct from body, though, in the posthumous work on Moral Philosophy, he expressly states that we know mind as we know body " by qualities immediately perceived though the substance of both be unknown ( bk.

She took the Moral Sciences Tripos in 1874, and was classed between a first and second-class, though as a woman she was debarred from graduation.

Moral luck describes circumstances whereby a moral agent is assigned moral blame or praise for an action or its consequences even though it is clear that said agent did not have full control over either the action or its consequences.

Moral blame is assigned to an individual for being extremely selfish, even though that selfishness is almost certainly due in part to external environmental effects.

William Styles defines neonomianism as, " A schemed of Divinity propounded by Daniel Williams, D. D., which held that God has receded from the demands of the Moral Law, and given up its original obligations — and that the Gospel is a New Law, but of milder requirements, in which Faith, Repentance, and sincere though imperfect Obedience, are substituted in the room of the perfect and perpetual Obedience required by the original Law.

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.

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.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

The " liberal arts " or " liberal pursuits " ( Latin liberalia studia ) were already so called in formal education during the Roman Empire ; for example, Seneca the Younger discusses liberal arts in education from a critical Stoic point of view in Moral Epistle 88.

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.

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.

Among the American Christian leaders who spoke out in Moon's defense were conservative Jerry Falwell, head of Moral Majority, and liberal Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

The underpinnings for the contemporary moral panic were found in a rise of five factors in the years leading up to the 1980s: The establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity and political organization of the Moral Majority ; the rise of the Anti-cult movement which spread ideas of abusive cults kidnapping and brainwashing children and teens ; the appearance of the Church of Satan and other explicitly Satanist groups that added a kernel of truth to the existence of Satanic cults ; the appearance of the child abuse industry and a group of professionals dedicated to the protection of children ; and the popularization of posttraumatic stress disorder, repressed memory and corresponding survivor movement.

This restriction ended around 1850, and Triposes in the Moral Sciences and Natural Sciences were introduced in the 1860s.

These were Lily Tomlin, a gay actress and comedian ; Peter Tatchell, a world-renowned gay rights campaigner ; Don Baxter, Executive Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations at that time ; Bev Lange, Chief Executive Officer of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation at the time, a former President of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and a former co-chair of the Sydney Gay Games ; Lex Watson and Sue Wills, Campaign Against Moral Prosecution's ( CAMP ) first Co-Presidents ; and Hannah Williams and Savannah Supski, who had recently protested against the ban against same-sex couples at Hannah's Melbourne school formal.

The Moral Majority ’ s headquarters were in Lynchburg, Virginia, the same city where Falwell was the presiding minister of the nation ’ s largest independent Baptist church, Thomas Road Baptist Church.

The Moral Majority was an organization made up of conservative Christian political action committees which campaigned on issues its personnel believed were important to maintaining its Christian conception of moral law, a conception they believed represented the opinions of the majority of Americans ( hence the movement's name ).

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.

The Moral Majority sought to mobilize conservative Americans to become politically active on issues they thought were important.

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

The state chapters of the Moral Majority were financially independent from the national organization and relied on local resources to conduct their activities.

The Moral Majority ’ s initial political actions were aimed at supporting Jesse Helms ’ proposed legislation on school prayer.

Carter did not share the Moral Majority ’ s political imperative to unify personal and political positions and would instead support the positions of his own party, the Democratic Party, that were at odds with his personal religious stances.

Although Robertson ’ s political platforms were extremely similar to the ones the Moral Majority supported, Falwell gave his organization ’ s endorsement to contender George H. W. Bush instead.

By the late 1980s the views of the Moral Majority were challenged widely and the organization started to crumble.

Moral hazard is the prospect that a party insulated from risk may behave differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.

His chief works were Über die von der neuesten Philosophie geforderte Trennung der Moral von der Religion ( 1804 ); Einleitung in das Evangelium Johannis ( 1806 ); and Institutiones theologicae dogmaticae ( 1815 ), to which W Steiger's Kritik des Rationalismus in Wegscheiders Dogmatik ( 1830 ) was a reply.

They were written in continuation of a dialogue on the age of Queen Elizabeth included in his Moral and Political Dialogues ( 1759 ) Two later dialogues On the Uses of Foreign Travel were printed in 1763.