Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

He also supported the efforts of the Moral and Social Council of Canada to bring about large-scale social reform, and developed a reputation as a radical minister.

Finally, Blackmore attempted to answer Deism again with Natural Theology, or, Moral Duties Consider'd apart from Positive in 1728.

Adam Smith is remembered by lay persons as the father of capitalism, but his Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 also attempted to strike out a new ground for moral action.

In The Rational and the Moral Order ( 1995 ), Baier attempted to answer the question by interpreting morality as a system of reasons of mutual benefit that are appropriate for contexts in which everyone's following self-interested reasons would have suboptimal results for everyone.

Adam Smith is remembered by lay persons as the father of capitalism, but his Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 attempted to strike out a new ground for moral action.

According to his own recollections, his group of Moldavians was kept under close watch by Alexandru Sturdza, who, in addition, enlisted Kogălniceanu's help in writing his work Études historiques, chrétiennes et morales (" Historical, Christian and Moral Studies ").

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 relativism has been espoused, criticized, and debated for thousands of years, from ancient Greece and India down to the present day, in diverse fields including philosophy, science, and religion.

In The Theory of Moral Sentiments Smith uses the concept to sustain a " trickling down " theory, a concept also used in neoclassical development theory: The gluttony of the rich serves to feed the poor.

Moral instructions are included in Buddhist scriptures or handed down through tradition.

In 1785 she bought a house, at Cowslip Green, near Wrington, in northern Somerset, where she settled down to country life with her sister Martha, and wrote many ethical books and tracts: Structures on the Modern System of Female Education ( 1799 ), Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess ( 1805 ), Coelebs in Search of a Wife ( only nominally a story, 1809 ), Practical Piety ( 1811 ), Christian Morals ( 1813 ), Character of St Paul ( 1815 ), Moral Sketches ( 1819 ).

Driven off into the mountains in the attack of July 16, de la Cruz had regrouped 2, 000 sharpshooters at Peñas del Moral and climbed back down towards the battle, directed by the sound of firing.

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

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.

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 action always has an effect on certain people or things, the consequences.

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.

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.

This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

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

Marge has higher morals than most other characters, once leading a family values crusade against the violent Itchy & Scratchy Show and being a prominent member of the " Citizens ' Committee on Moral Hygiene.

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.

; " Usher II ": Literary expert William Stendahl has retreated to Mars to escape the book-burning dictates of the Moral Climate Monitors.

Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors, Lakoff has given numerous public lectures and written accounts of his message from Moral Politics.

Since about 1980, the Christian right has been associated with several institutions including the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.

Moral Politics has two different purposes as a book.

Once titled Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't, it has been rechristened as Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think.

Announcing the disbandment of the Moral Majority in 1989 in Las Vegas, Falwell declared, “ Our goal has been achieved … The religious right is solidly in place and … religious conservatives in America are now in for the duration .”

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 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.

Moral hazard has been studied by insurers and academics.

With God as " First Cause " or " Moral Legislator " theology has no concern ; nor is it interested in the speculative problems indicated by the traditional doctrine of the Trinity.

In this area her paper " Moral Saints " has been particularly influential, attacking the idea that a morally perfect person is actually an attractive ethical ideal.

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

* Alasdair MacIntyre has made an effort to reconstruct a virtue-based theory in dialogue with the problems of modern and postmodern thought ; his works include After Virtue and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry.

Professor Christie Davies, author of this theory, has posed the main arguments in his article Ethnic Jokes, Moral Values and Social Boundaries, published in 1982.

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral sciences ".

" 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.

In 1692, Quesnel published a book which he had been working on since 1668, Réflexions morales sur le Nouveau Testament ( Moral Reflections on the New Testament ), a devotional guide to the New Testament which laid out the Jansenist position in strong terms.

Lakoff wrote Moral Politics soon after the Republican Party's " Contract With America " takeover of Congress under the Clinton presidency, and his usage of the terms " liberal " and " conservative " is strongly resembles how those labels might have been used in the 1994 elections, the former having much to do with the Democratic party and the latter with the Republican party ; indeed, chapter 9, " Moral Categories in Politics ", presents Hillary Clinton as a prototypical " liberal " and Newt Gingrich as a prototypical " conservative ".

Having already been a part of a well-established network of ministers and ministries, within a few years Falwell was favorably positioned to launch the Moral Majority.

In addition, the Moral Majority took control of the “ Old Time Gospel Hour ’ s ” publication, Journal Champion, which had been distributed to the show ’ s donors.

After Reagan ’ s victory, Falwell announced Reagan ’ s success was directly due to the Moral Majority and others registering and encouraging church-goers to vote who had never before been politically active.

Pat Robertson sought the Republican nomination and would have been, at first glance, a natural choice for the Moral Majority ’ s support.

In 1840 Martineau was appointed Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy in Manchester New College, the seminary in which he had been educated, and which had now moved from York back to Manchester.

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 ..."