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Example sentences for "moral philosophy"

  • Again, moral philosophy propoundeth to itself the framing of internal goodness, but civil knowledge requireth only an external goodness, for that, as to society, sufficeth.

  • Brown, of Edinburgh, the professor of moral philosophy, at the house of my dear and highly valued friend J.

  • One lovely girl of sixteen took her degree in mathematics, and another was examined in moral philosophy.

  • Corniani thinks it the only work of moral philosophy in the fifteenth century, which is not a servile copy of some ancient system.

  • Under the name of jurisprudence, we are not yet to seek for writings on that high department of moral philosophy, which treats of the rules of universal justice, by which positive legislation and the courts of judicature ought to be directed.

  • Pringle in the Chair of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh.

  • Then will it be clearly seen how he would answer the fundamental question of Moral Philosophy,--Wherein does the quality of Goodness originally reside?

  • That which was made fundamental by Kant, in all that he has left on the subject of Moral Philosophy, is the position that it is wholly to be developed out of practical reason, or will as represented in reason.

  • It is strongly opposed to a school of moral philosophy which is at present extremely influential in England; and, in addition to the many faults that may be found in its execution, its very plan must make it displeasing to many.

  • The business of a moral philosophy is to account for and to justify our moral sentiments, or in other words, to show how we come to have our notions of duty, and to supply us with a reason for acting upon them.

  • This explanation of the source of his ‘original’ moral philosophy comprehends in itself a diagnosis, which at once obtrudes on the most short-sighted eye.

  • The death of Francisco Sancho, bishop of Segorbe, in June 1578 caused a vacancy in the university chair of Moral Philosophy.

  • Zumel, as we have seen, was a defeated competitor for the chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Salamanca in 1578.

  • He returned in 1665 to Zurich, where he was elected professor of moral philosophy.

  • In 1845 the Chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of St. Andrews, then occupied by Dr.

  • At Edinburgh, Ferrier distinguished himself in the class of Moral Philosophy, and carried off the prize of the year for a poem which was looked upon as giving promise of literary power afterwards fulfilled.

  • We, the students of Moral Philosophy, are lingering in the quadrangle, for the Professor, punctual in his unpunctuality, comes in regularly two or three minutes after the hour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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