Term
Morality
used in 118 texts across the archive
“When we moralize, we want the imperatives we follow or issue to be backed by the currency of indicatives—as the imperatives in the Decalogue need the backing of "I am the Lord thy God…" This is because morality is a system of imperatives, and a system of imperatives requires something other than an imperative to provide articulation—indicatives embed the imperatives in a shared reality, perhaps, especially, a commanded reality.”
In use
“Teleology and morality are fully implicit in the originary structure.”
“What kind of morality is this, then—what does it consider more important than maintaining a livable social order?”
“When we think in terms of the relation between morality and power, for example, we are conceding the differentiation of the disciplines: morality is defined in one arena (“Philosophy,” “Ethics”), and power in another (“Political Science”).”
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