How to Use moral philosophy in a Sentence
moral philosophy
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Quartz took a look at what the fields of ethics and moral philosophy have to say.
—Sarah Todd, Quartz, 8 June 2022
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Through rope and card tricks, sleight of hand, misdirection and more, students will learn the principles of the craft as well as its moral philosophies.
—Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 14 Apr. 2020
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At its heart, the show is about moral philosophy and the ethics of living in a society with one another.
—Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2019
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These were lonely books which some readers would have called novels, but which the plainsmen called moral philosophy.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
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In order to save their souls, the characters embark upon a quest that doubles as a course in moral philosophy.
—Judy Berman, Time, 15 Nov. 2019
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Economics emerged in the 1700s as an offshoot of moral philosophy.
—Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
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In many ways, the goal of the musical performance was to spread a moral philosophy promoting good and condemning evil.
—Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
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And whether all of this is a miracle, or a very dangerous game depends on your perspective and moral philosophy.
—Kim Brooks, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Nov. 2018
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For those who prefer their crime-fiction pulp hard-boiled and harder-hitting, with sidelong glances into moral philosophy and nasty nihilism, Zahler's the guy.
—Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2020
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Yet economics has not always been so shy about moral philosophy.
—The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
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In one study, researchers exposed subjects to the footbridge problem, a classic problem in moral philosophy.
—Daniel Kahneman, WSJ, 13 May 2021
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Society of Jesus or Compañía de Jesús was a fellowship bonded by the moral philosophy of Jesus.
—Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 16 Dec. 2019
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One way to answer your question, Suspect, without any appeals to moral philosophy, might be in terms of pragmatic consequences.
—Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 13 May 2021
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In a vacuum, moral philosophy and a popular television sitcom are at the polar ends of the cultural spectrum.
—Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2018
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The humanities, computer languages like Python and moral philosophy all rate far lower, while foreign languages such as Mandarin Chinese are not seen as must-haves.
—Michelle Ma, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2019
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But then again, judges in the past were never expected to undertake studies in courses of psychoanalysis or moral philosophy.
—Elijah Wolfson, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2014
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These ideas, though sympathetic, demonstrable and central to the book’s moral philosophy, feel more like learning moments than storytelling.
—Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
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Foddy, an unpresuming Australian with a doctorate in moral philosophy who now makes video games that purposely abuse their players, encouraged me not to get too chuffed about my entourage.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
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In a conventional thin liberal moral philosophy the history of those who gave rise to you in a biological or even cultural sense shouldn't matter.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2010
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In moral philosophy, this approach, distinct from virtue ethics, is called consequentialism.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2018
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As any practitioner of philosophy will tell you, moral philosophy is not a discipline which offers up easy solutions.
—Alan Rusbridger, Quartz at Work, 3 Feb. 2020
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These are the core disciplines of the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, moral philosophy.
—Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
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The administrators merely want the freedom to operate the facility according to the precepts of hospice moral philosophy.
—Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
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But no current show is more certifiably bonkers or combines such demented visual imagination with its bleak moral philosophy.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2022
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Their moral philosophy has been informed almost entirely by media controversies in which apologies are nothing more than a social lubricant — and assumed to be insincere.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
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The obituary highlights Tommy Raskin's life as an animal lover, committed vegan and moral philosophy devotee.
—Lucas Manfredi, Fox News, 5 Jan. 2021
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But earlier readers saw closer connections: medieval commentators categorized Ovid’s Art of Love as a work of moral philosophy.
—Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
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But the most profound bioethical disputes actually lie beneath these headline-grabbing controversies, deep in the soil of moral philosophy and anthropology.
—Yuval Levin, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2020
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The bottom line, according to these thinkers, is that deliberation is based not so much on abstract principle as on empathy, and that relationships have value that is often neglected in moral philosophy and international relations.
—Greta Uehling, The Conversation, 22 Aug. 2022
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Heavily influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, especially the moral philosophy of David Hume, many of them expected politicians to behave only in their self-interests, narrowly understood.
—Jay Cost, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
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