Definition of "moral philosophy" []

• Ethics. (noun)

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• "As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurian. consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us."
• "The inclusive system of moral philosophy which emerged in and through the great Summae was bipolar."
• "Sartre's famous example of the uselessness of moral rules to a man in an extreme situation is obvi - ously capable of speaking to many to whom the de - tailed analyses of traditional moral philosophy would be boring or unhelpful."