Piaget proposed a developmental theory of moral reasoning in which children progress from a naïve understanding of morality based on behavior and outcomes to a more advanced understanding based on intentions.

Natural law is closely associated with morality and, in historically influential versions, with the intentions of God.

The difficulty in interpretation centres around trying to explain why, since it is consequences that matter, intentions should play a role in the assessment of the morality of an action but motives should not.

Sallust adopts the usually accepted view of Catiline, and describes him as the deliberate foe of law, order and morality, and does not give a comprehensive explanation of his views and intentions.

This would mean that morality is ultimately not based on reasons: " if theological voluntarism is true, then God's commands / intentions must be arbitrary ; it cannot be that morality could wholly depend on something arbitrary ... when we say that some moral state of affairs obtains, we take it that there is a reason for that moral state of affairs obtaining rather than another.

Reagan equated the " Vietnam syndrome " not only with a reluctance on the part of the American public to support US military interventions but also with feelings of guilt about the devastation brought about due to the Vietnam War and with feelings of doubt over the morality of America's intentions and actions during the war.

One can make judgments on the morality Hieronimo based on his revenge-focused goals but the question many scholars face is whether the fault of his intentions is truly his.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

It is possible that the study of literature affects the conscience, the morality, the sensitivity to some code of `` right '' and `` wrong ''.

I refer to the notion that the structure of society is a microcosm of the cosmic design and that history conforms to patterns of justice and chastisement as if it were a morality play set in motion by the gods for our instruction.

Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.

What determines the morality, they state, is not the means used, but the motive In general, the means ( excluding abortion ) that prove most effective are considered the most ethical.

But since this is a world in which people disagree about ends and goals and concerning justice and injustice, and since, in a situation where direct action and economic pressure are called for, the justice of the matter has either not been clearly defined by law or the law is not effectively present, there has to be a morality of means applied in every case in which people take it upon themselves to use economic pressures or other forms of force.

It is clear that non-violent resistance is a mode of action in need of justification and limitation in Christian morality, like any other form of resistance.

This makes necessary a morality of means, and principles governing the conduct of resistance whenever this is thought to be justified.

The Court limited its decision to the tax issue involved, commenting: `` It is not our province to pass judgment on the morality of the transaction ''.

This is the ancient morality of the

Christie wrote that Poirot is a Roman Catholic, and gave her character a strong sense of Catholic morality later in works.

The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God.

Arguments from moral normativity observe some aspect of morality and argue that God is the best or only explanation for this, concluding that God must exist.

C. S. Lewis supported this argument and challenged the evolutionary naturalistic view of morality – that morality evolved and is a human construct – by arguing that without objective moral truths, moral scepticism would set in, leading to moral anarchy.

He concluded that, because people act as if is morality is an objective truth, then it must be, and that God must exist.

# A human experience of morality is observed.

Some arguments from moral order suggest that morality is based on rationality and that this can only be the case if there is a moral order in the universe.

In his Critique of Practical Reason he went on to argue that, despite the failure of these arguments, morality requires that God's existence is assumed, owing to practical reason.

# If morality is objective and absolute, God must exist.

This account, supported by biologist E. O. Wilson and philosopher Michael Ruse, proposes that the human experience of morality is a by-product of natural selection, a theory philosopher Mark D. Linville calls evolutionary naturalism.

Social structure and motivation can make morality binding in a sense, but only because it makes moral norms feel inescapable, according to Foot.

A moral code is a system of morality ( according to a particular philosophy, religion, culture, etc.

The means of redemption, according to the philosophy embedded in post-Reformation morality plays, is dependent upon the audience understanding the truthfulness of Protestant theology, verses and also the deceptiveness, wickedness of Catholic theology.

The problem with morality, according to Nietzsche, is that those who were considered “ good ” were the powerful nobles who had more education, and considered themselves better than anyone below their rank.

Conscience, according to Johnson, was nothing more than a conviction felt by ourselves of something to be done or something to be avoided ; in questions of simple unperplexed morality, conscience is very often a guide that may be trusted.

He does not, indeed, maintain thereby that the execution of this command is equivalent to the performance of the whole Law ; and in one of his polemic interpretations of Scripture he protests strongly against a contrary opinion allegedly held by Christians, according to which Judaism is " simply morality " ( Mek., Shirah, 3, 44a, ed.

But if eudaimonia is to be achieved through the satisfaction of desire, whereas being just or acting justly requires suppression of desire, then it is not in the interests of the strong man to act according to the dictates of conventional morality.

Alston contented that God is the supreme standard of morality and acts according to his character, which is necessarily good.

The European patent was then opposed by several third parties, more precisely by 17 opponents, notably on the grounds laid out in, according to which " inventions, the publication or exploitation of which would be contrary to " ordre public " or morality are excluded from patentability.

I, AB., do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will do my utmost, at every risk, while life lasts, to make versions, according to Luby, establish in ' Ireland an independent Democratic Republic ; that I will yield implicit obedience, in all things not contrary to the law of God of morality ' to the commands of my superior officers ; and that I shall preserve inviolable secrecy regarding all the transactions of this secret society that may be confided in me.

Of all the senior staffers, Toby is the most prone to clash with the president, being unafraid to challenge his judgment and question his actions when he feels Bartlet is not acting according to his true morality.

Te Ua began to formulate his new religion, complete with a holy book, Ua Rongo Pai ( the Gospel according to Ua ) which combined elements of Old Testament morality, Christian doctrine and traditional Māori religion.

Her writings are remarkable, according to Fontenelle, " for the tone of amiable virtue that reigns throughout ," and, according to Louis Simon Auger, " for the purity of the style and the morality, the elevation of the sentiments, the fineness of the observations and the ideas.

Sentimentalism in philosophy is a view in meta-ethics according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.

Feinberg suggests that offence to others also provides an objective reason for invoking the criminal law, but it clearly does not as offence is determined according to conventional morality.

“ Did I not inform you a little ago that, according to our fathers Cellot and Reginald, ‘ in matters of morality we are to follow, not the ancient fathers, but the modern casuists ?’”" ( Letter VI )

The title " Debaser " references the fact that Un Chien Andalou debases morality and standards of art, according to Black Francis.

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