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This chapter explores Marx's transcendence of morality by considering an aspect of his distinction between essence and appearance. It claims that there is no ongoing contradiction between science and ethics in Marx's thought, as the contradiction theorists argue.
Dec 2, 2005 · Since Aquinas thinks that the existence and providence of God, as the transcendent source of all persons and benefits, is certain, his usual statement of the master moral principle affirms that one should love God and one’s-neighbor-as-oneself.
Moral action is not governed or called forth by a theory; it is a spontaneous response to the feeling of one’s individual potentiality combined with one’s natural love of the good. Assuming the good is not conceived narrowly, as it almost never was by Emerson, this kind of morality is less problematic than many others.
Feb 12, 2002 · Although Hobbes offered some mild pragmatic grounds for preferring monarchy to other forms of government, his main concern was to argue that effective government—whatever its form—must have absolute authority.
- Sharon A. Lloyd, Susanne Sreedhar
- 2002
Feb 6, 2003 · The distinction between morality and law is also the basis for Thoreau's “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849). Thoreau was arrested in 1846 for nonpayment of his poll tax, and he took the opportunity presented by his night in jail to meditate on the authority of the state.
The name “transcendentalism” was initially bestowed by the movement's critics to ridicule that diverse group of philosophical idealists who held that certain beliefs and values transcended mere sensory experience. Some of these idealists were ministers, others former ministers; most were Harvard College or Harvard Divinity School graduates ...
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Transcendentalism sought to vitalize American ethical thought in three main ways: first, by convincing individuals to take up morality consciously and freely rather than unthinkingly or grudgingly as a mere external imposition; second, by defining human excellence, or virtue, more broadly, in terms of its contribution to the full flourishing of ...
