morality

  • 61morality play — moral′ity play n. lit.+sbz an allegorical drama of the 15th and 16th centuries in which personified virtues, vices, and other abstractions are characters Compare miracle play mystery play • Etymology: 1925–30 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 62morality play — /məˈræləti pleɪ/ (say muh raluhtee play) noun 1. a type of allegorical drama employing personifications of virtues and vices, a form of which was in vogue in Europe from the 14th to the 16th centuries. 2. a play with a moral message …

  • 63morality tale — (or play)   a literary term mostly, but used also to refer to a film (often heavy handed and obvious in tone) that presents a judgment on the goodness/badness of human behavior and character, and emphasizes the struggle between good and evil… …

    Glossary of cinematic terms

  • 64Science of morality — The Good Samaritan by François Léon Sicard. The sculpture is based on a story, and one that would be promoted by science of morality. Nature, habits, culture and norms are all pivotal in this empirical pursuit of harmony among living beings.… …

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  • 65Master–slave morality — Master slave morality is a central theme of Friedrich Nietzsche s works, in particular the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morality. Nietzsche argued that there were two fundamental types of morality: Master morality and slave morality .… …

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  • 66Master-slave morality — is a central theme of Friedrich Nietzsche s works, in particular the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morality . Nietzsche argued that there were two fundamental types of morality: Master morality and slave morality . Master morality weighs… …

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  • 67Evolution of morality — The evolution of morality refers to the emergence of human moral behavior over the course of human evolution. Morality can be defined as a system of ideas about right and wrong conduct. In everyday life, morality is typically associated with… …

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  • 68LAW AND MORALITY — In the Bible In the Pentateuch, legal and moral norms are not distinguished by any definitional criteria. The manner of presentation of both is via revelation – moral norms are not presented as wisdom but rather as prophetic revelation. Thus the… …

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  • 69On the Genealogy of Morality — On the Genealogy of Morals   Title page of the first edition …

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  • 70On the Basis of Morality — (German: Über die Grundlage der Moral) is one of Arthur Schopenhauer s major works in ethics, in which he argues that morality stems from compassion. Schopenhauer begins with a criticism of Kant s Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, which… …

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