Moral sense

This speech their dull disciples (the Greeks) took in a moral sense, and in ignorance affixed it to their Temples. But I admonish thee, whosoever thou art, that desirest to dive into the inmost parts of Nature, if that which thou seekest thou find not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee. If thou knowest not the excellency of thine own house, why dost thou seek and search after the excellency of other things The universal Orb of the world contains not so many great mysteries and excellen-... 

Right and wrong come from an innate moral sense. 

A schematic of the plausible dynamic interactions of these five modes is presented in Figure 8.1. Starting from the naturalistic tradition, we assume the existence of a moral sense in humans, and from that seed, shared beliefs result in reductions in violence through loyalty among related groups of humans. This permits effective small-scale social organization the benefits of such cooperation on a small scale lead to the recognition that social rules of conduct convey benefits to all. The utility of such rules drives their wider spread, and quite... 

Wilson, J. Q. (1993). The moral sense. New York The Free Press. 

Impressing, with charm, the intellectual or moral sense, through inherent fitness or grace or exact adaptation to a purpose hence applied sometimes to things otherwise repulsive, a beautiful operation in surgery. 

Underlying the myth of innate criminality is another myth about the innateness of social feelings and the moral sense. For example, in Charles Darwin s The Descent of Man (1879), his account of human evolution and the evolution of human behavior,103 he postulated human morality as an evolved (and therefore inherited) trait. As evidence he presented rhetoric rather than science—and page after page of silly anthropomorphism It is certain that associated animals have a feeling of love for each other, which is not felt by non-social adult animals. 104 For humans... 

Psychologically the sense of the divine appears to be a impulse coming out of the deepest place in our nature a fundamental activity and which can be seen equally among the primitive as well as the civilized. These variations are linked to various other fundamental activities moral sense aesthetic sense notably personal will. 

Joined with intuition, moral sense, aesthetic sense and intelligence, the sense of the Divine give the human personality it full flowering. Now, it is doubtful whether success in life demands the maximum, integral development of each of our physiological, intellectual, affective and spiritual activities. The spirit is both reason and sentiment, and we should love beauty and knowledge as much as moral beauty, that of pure form equally to that of action. In this, Plato was right when he declared that to merit the name of Man, one should have created a child, planted a tree, written a book, . 

When the Jeffersonian came upon the concept of evil in theology or moral philosophy, he naturalized it into just another bodily disease a disease, indeed, of the moral sense, but essentially no different froni others. To reproach a man because his moral sense was corruptible was like blaming him for susceptibility to yellow fever—like reproaching a wagon for its broken wheel. 

Moral courage is not about facing physical challenges that could harm the body. It s about facing mental challenges that could harm one s reputation, emotional well-being, self-esteem, or other characteristics. These challenges, as the term implies, are deeply connected with our moral sense—our core moral values. 

This is a story of striking juxtapositions—a snapshot of an American life, as it were, that captures in a single frame racial prejudice in the United States, the horror of the war in Europe, and the human impact of the atomic bomb. And yet we read this brief personal account, chapter after terse chapter, with a persistent sense of how decent and constructive the human spirit can be. James Yamazaki, pediatrician and medical researcher, made an early commitment to making children whole. Son of an Episcopal priest, his own vision has been consistently humanistic, his moral sense as solid as a rock. 

IV Moral Sense, Civic Education, and Freedom of the Press... 

To Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3, 1771 On the role of fiction and drama in stimulating the moral sense A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge (1779) To Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785... 

On the place of reason, religion and science in moral education, and the role of the moral sense - The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree. .. It may be strengthened by exercise. .. Includes famous parable of the ploughman and the professor"... 

More on the cultivation of the moral sense critique of "self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism which is no part of morality"... 

The most detailed and systematic statement of Tf s educational philosophy, particularly as regards the cultivation of the moral sense and civic virtue IV.24 To John Brazier, Aug, 24, 1819 IV.25 To William Short, Oct. 31, 1819 IV.26 To —, Feb. 3, 1825... 

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