I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists:… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“Confucianism is not a religion but rather a system of moral philosophy that originated in China in the teachings of Kong Fuzi… — Daniel Tudor Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Still more central to his anger and frustration, and lying perhaps at the very roots of his hatred for the capitalist system,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“It is just as little necessary for the saint to be a philosopher as for the philosopher to be a saint; just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“. . . Neither ecological nor social engineering will lead us to a conflict-free, simple path . . . Utilitarians and others… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Lovers of freedom are, of course, also by and large lovers of tolerance and permissiveness. Being tolerant and permissive, especially toward others,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“When the spirit shines with the flames of morality, there remains no question, confusion or compliance - all that there persists, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I would say the 1980s, most importantly, there's been a witnessing of the bankruptcy of the liberal philosophy and the anti-moral and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you - this morality is text-less… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Cordelia – “Why so rough?” Aral – “It’s very poor. It was the town center during the time Isolation. And it hasn’t… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy. — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
