How to Use moral philosophy in a Sentence

moral philosophy

noun

• Quartz took a look at what the fields of ethics and moral philosophy have to say.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 8 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Economics emerged in the 1700s as an offshoot of moral philosophy.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yet economics has not always been so shy about moral philosophy.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• In one study, researchers exposed subjects to the footbridge problem, a classic problem in moral philosophy.
  — Daniel Kahneman, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This important work of moral philosophy argues that all of us are, first and foremost, embodied beings, and that public policy must recognize the limits and gifts that this entails.
  — David S. Reynolds, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In moral philosophy, this approach, distinct from virtue ethics, is called consequentialism.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2018
• 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
• These are the core disciplines of the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, moral philosophy.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The obituary highlights Tommy Raskin's life as an animal lover, committed vegan and moral philosophy devotee.
  — Lucas Manfredi, Fox News, 5 Jan. 2021
• 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
• Belles lettres surveyed what now seems like a broad and only tangentially related collection of forms of writing, including poetry, history, and moral philosophy.
  — Evan Kindley, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• 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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