ethical philosophy
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But for all his learning, Acton never published a book in his own lifetime; and for all its brilliance, his rigidly ethical philosophy seemed out of step with the complacent new materialism of his age.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of offering nation-building courses in economics and agriculture, Makerere emphasizes such traditional Western disciplines as ethical philosophy and Greek.
From Time Magazine Archive
We don't like to kill things; it's an ingrained distaste, not merely a matter of ethical philosophy.
From The Younger Set by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
In the overflowing exuberance of their philanthropy, they take pity of our most lamentable moral darkness, and graciously condescend to teach us the very A B C of ethical philosophy!
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott
In another form it is the basis of the ethical philosophy of Plato, who habitually regards virtue as a kind of "order."
From The Greek View of Life by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
