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  • The result is the sort of conventional morality, in Kohlbergian terms, which encapsulates the whole set of protocols as an abstract and unifying social order but which is defined bottom-up in terms of specific mores (though it will also be redefined top-down under the influence of post-conventional morality's universal ethical principles).

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • The result is the sort of conventional morality, in Kohlbergian terms, which encapsulates the whole set of protocols as an abstract and unifying social order but which is defined bottom-up in terms of specific mores (though it will also be redefined top-down under the influence of post-conventional morality's universal ethical principles).

    A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

  • Other than that, it seems like a perfectly harmless distraction, standard underdog-hero story, and probably a message about prejudice thrown in for morality's sake.

    Links... Mike 2009

  • We may differ as to what morality we want, and we clearly do, but to deny morality's existence in any institution created by people is just plain silly.

    Cover Everybody 2009

  • Indeed, it strikes at the very heart of morality in characterising it as a process of learning, of maturation, entirely in line with conventional morality's position in a Kohlbergian schema of moral development.

    A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

  • Indeed, it strikes at the very heart of morality in characterising it as a process of learning, of maturation, entirely in line with conventional morality's position in a Kohlbergian schema of moral development.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • This leads him naturally into the next essay's consideration of ideal morality, where he discusses the scope of morality's demands on the individual, and, by a further natural extension, into the seventh essay's discussion of the distinction between the good and the bad self, a discussion which involves an attempted demonstration that the bad self is a kind of unrealizable parasite on the good.

    Francis Herbert Bradley Candlish, Stewart 2009

  • For Wong, given a variety of human needs and the depth of self-interest, morality's function is to promote both social co-operation and individual flourishing.

    Moral Relativism Gowans, Chris 2008

  • Singer's proposals, unlike Murphy's, have generally been taken as representing a revision of ordinary morality's requirements of beneficence, despite the faint presence in the history of Western morality of religious obligations of tithing.

    The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics Beauchamp, Tom 2008

  • But theological voluntarism can provide a straightforward understanding of the impartiality of morals by appealing to the claim that the demands of morality arise from the demands of someone who in fact has an impartial and supremely deep love for all of the beings that are morality's proper objects.

    Theological Voluntarism Murphy, Mark 2008

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