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2. Morality - Wikipedia

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   Morality (from Latin moralitas 'manner, character, proper behavior') is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong). [1] Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion ...

3. Morality (novella) - Wikipedia

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   Morality is a novella by American writer Stephen King published in the July 2009 issue of Esquire. [1] It was then included as a bonus story in Blockade Billy, a novella published on May 25, 2010, and later collected and re-introduced in the November 3, 2015 anthology The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. In the latter publication, King revealed that the ...

4. On the Basis of Morality - Wikipedia

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   On the Basis of Morality or On the Basis of Morals ( German: Ueber die Grundlage der Moral, 1839) is one of Arthur Schopenhauer 's major works in ethics, in which he argues that morality stems from compassion. Schopenhauer begins with a criticism of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, which Schopenhauer considered to be the clearest ...

5. Moral foundations theory - Wikipedia

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   The usefulness of moral foundations theory as an explanation for political ideology has been contested on the grounds that moral foundations are less heritable than political ideology, and longitudinal data suggest that political ideology predicts subsequent endorsement of moral foundations, but moral foundations endorsement does not predict ...

6. Moral psychology - Wikipedia

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   Moral psychology. Moral psychology is a field of study in both philosophy and psychology. Historically, the term "moral psychology" was used relatively narrowly to refer to the study of moral development. [1] [2] Moral psychology eventually came to refer more broadly to various topics at the intersection of ethics, psychology, and philosophy of ...

7. The Moral Landscape - Wikipedia

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   The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values is a 2010 book by Sam Harris, in which he promotes a science of morality and argues that many thinkers have long confused the relationship between morality, facts, and science. He aims to carve a third path between secularists who say morality is subjective ( moral relativists) and ...

8. On the Genealogy of Morality - Wikipedia

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   On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic (German: Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift) is an 1887 book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.It consists of a preface and three interrelated treatises ('Abhandlungen' in German) that expand and follow through on concepts Nietzsche sketched out in Beyond Good and Evil (1886).

9. The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Wikipedia

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   The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith. [1] [2] [3] It provided the ethical, philosophical, economic, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including The Wealth of Nations (1776), Essays on Philosophical Subjects (1795), and Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms (1763) (first published in 1896).