Moral+sense

  • 91moral — [14] Latin mōs ‘custom’ is the starting point of the English family of ‘morality’ words (and its plural mōres was acquired by English as mores in the 20th century). Its derived adjective mōrālis was coined, according to some by Cicero, as a… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 92moral — [14] Latin mōs ‘custom’ is the starting point of the English family of ‘morality’ words (and its plural mōres was acquired by English as mores in the 20th century). Its derived adjective mōrālis was coined, according to some by Cicero, as a… …

    Word origins

  • 93tropological sense —    : moral sense    This term (from the Greek tropos, meaning turn or direction, and logos, meaning word ) refers to a form of biblical interpretation that emphasizes the ethical aspects of particular scriptural texts; for example, how should a… …

    Glossary of theological terms

  • 94Moral insanity —    (insanity without hallucinations or delusions). See Prichard, James Cowles (1835).    Distinction between momentary symptom picture and underlying disease process in psychiatry (1844). To some extent, physicians have always been aware that the …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 95sense — n. 1. Faculty of perception. 2. Feeling, sensation, perception. 3. Intellect, mind, understanding, reason, brains, thinking principle. 4. Discernment, perception, apprehension, understanding, appreciation, feeling, recognition, tact. 5. Opinion,… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 96moral appeal — An appeal in an advertisement or sales literature that is directed to the audience s sense of what is right and proper …

    Big dictionary of business and management

  • 97Hume: moral and political philosophy — Rosalind Hursthouse INTRODUCTION Hume’s moral and political philosophy, like his epistemology and meta physics, originally appeared in A Treatise of Human Nature, (henceforth [7.1]), Book III of which, ‘Of Morals’, was published in 1740. He… …

    History of philosophy

  • 98The Theory of Moral Sentiments — was written by Adam Smith in 1759. It provided the ethical, philosophical, psychological and methodological underpinnings to Smith s later works, including The Wealth of Nations (1776), A Treatise on Public Opulence (1764) (first published in… …

    Wikipedia

  • 99Philosophy of Common Sense —     Philosophy of Common Sense     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Philosophy of Common Sense     The term common sense designates     (1) a special faculty, the sensus communis of the Aristotelean and Scholastic philosophy;     (2) the sum of original …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 100common sense —    Among the most influential philosophical approaches in 19th and 20th century Protestant theology has been the common sense realism of Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid (1710 96). Reid, who taught at both King s College in Aberdeen and the… …

    Encyclopedia of Protestantism