Moral Quotes - Page 20

• If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a moral agent because such a person would not be rational.

  Allen W. Wood

  Iron, Feelings, Agents

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• What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Self, Law, Acting

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• Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

  Allen W. Wood

  Feelings, Virtue, Certain

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• There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving theoreticians, fact-gatherers, protestors, martyrs for the cause, authors of first- person narratives who change the way we see and evaluate the distribution of harms and benefits.

  Catherine Wilson

  Progress, Benefits, Narrative

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• Gentlemanly, principled, helpful behaviour by older men vis-a-vis young women goes unnoticed, but it deserves real moral credit, and we could use more first-person testimony from the beneficiaries and practitioners about that too.

  Catherine Wilson

  Real, Men, Behaviour

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• I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Restaurants, Should

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question of somebody who's been here 20 years, paying taxes to which they probably do not receive a refund, and not committing any crimes, working hard, and supporting an industry. Shouldn't there be some middle ground here? Shouldn't there be a way for them to be welcome in this country?

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Years, America

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to it, while my father's doctor could not help my father to die when my farther asked for it? My consternation brought me to moral philosophy and a life-long search for an answer to the question when and why we should, and when we shouldn't, kill.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Father, Philosophy, Doctors

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• I am indeed a moral realist.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Realist

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• I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Believe, Independent, Answers

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• It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn't deserve it, I haven't promised to do it, it is not helpful to this creature or to anyone else if I do it, and so forth). But if this is a truth, existing independently of our conceptualisation, then at least one moral fact (this one) exists and moral realism is true. We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Strong, Pain, Thinking

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• Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Nihilism

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• We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Strong, Nihilism, Argument

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• Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Nihilism, Argument

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• It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Philosophy, Long, Nihilism

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• I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  May, Trends, Today

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• Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Ideas, Principles, Ethics

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• I look at the most promising putative moral theories. I construct crucial thought experiments in areas where they give conflicting advice. I confront their conflicting advice with my own moral sensitivity, my moral intuition. I take the theory that can best explain the content of my intuitions as gaining inductive support through an inference to the best explanation.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Giving, Support, Advice

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• These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Rights, Giving, Together

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• It is of note that even if utilitarianism has proved to be superior to deontology and the libertarian moral rights theory in the area of killing, we are not allowed to say that it has been finally vindicated; it has to face other challenges in other areas, in particular in situations of distributive justice.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Rights, Justice, Challenges

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• People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or Russia, but it is seen as a difficult moral problem in China and in the USA.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Russia, Usa

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• There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Pain, Believe, Reason

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• Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a rather new adventure. Let's wait and see what will happen!

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Religious, Adventure, Waiting

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• One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Issues

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• Democracy needs a moral compass.

  Jill Stein

  Democracy, Needs, Compass

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2016

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