moral philosophy

noun

: ethics
also : the study of human conduct and values

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Watching Bill Murray is fun, watching Bill Murray struggle is really fun, and watching Bill Murray caught in a space-time logjam, wrestling with moral philosophy while pursuing Andie MacDowell, is the most fun. Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024 After all, the idea that the seventeenth century was a time of general crisis originally referred to the critical, even radical thrust of the period’s natural and moral philosophy. Deborah R. Coen, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014 Weisberg describes working with Fields—son of a rabbi, studied moral philosophy in college—as transformative. Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023 Something about that juxtaposition—Aristotle in the mornings, clumsy pots of dal in the evenings—has inured me to all visions of moral philosophy as a simple variety of self-help. Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for moral philosophy 

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15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of moral philosophy was in the 15th century

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“Moral philosophy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moral%20philosophy. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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