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
Thence, proceeding to attack convention, Archibald eventually steered the conversation round to the contribution he himself purposed making to ethical philosophy, for he had been waiting for an opportunity to let Medhurst into the secret.
From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Louis Zangwill
It has been possible, and even necessary, to present them thus in an unbroken line, because the insular movement in ethical philosophy has been hardly, if at all, affected by anything done abroad.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain
But the ethical philosophy and the higher poetry of the two peoples belong not only to our immediate lineage but to our present possessions.
From The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam
