It is impossible to explain in brief the relation of Smith's ethical theory to his political economy.
The history of ethical theoryis blind when divorced from the history of philosophy, and with the history of ethical theory the moralist should be acquainted.
The mass of the material they furnish is so vast that the ethical writer who starts out to master it in all its details may well dread that he may be overcome by senility before he is ready to undertake the formulation of an ethical theory.
The history of ethical theory appears to make it clear that the "given" of the moralist is not of the same nature as that of the geometer.
The article makes no attempt to give a detailed, casuistical examination of the matter of ethical theory.
Nevertheless it is only necessary to mention such a work as Martineau's Types of Ethical Theory to dispel the notion that the type of moral philosophy most characteristically English, i.
The place of ethical theoryis not to deny human impulses, but to turn them to uses in which they will not hinder other impulses either of the individual or of others.
There has been throughout the history of ethical theory a tendency to oversimplify life by cramping it into the categories fixed by reason.
An ethical theory that is only verbally concerned with the good, but does not in practice promote human welfare, is futile pedantry or worse.
It would, indeed, be impossible to have even the pretence of an ethical theory without a certain use of reason.
From this point of view the first step in the establishment of an ethical theory would be an attempt to find a principle of unity in the various ends actually aimed at by individuals, and recognised by them as "good.
Side-note: First mention of these, as an exhaustive classification, in ethical theory.
Hence the large role of "motive" and "intent" in ethical theory.
Martineau's Types of Ethical Theory, Book I, Branch I.
A criticism of the use, in ethical theory, of a continually changing standard of moral judgment, must concern the more fundamental idea of a continually established equilibrium.
And then he went away to collect his kit, while I started in again on "Types of Ethical Theory" and took a stab at a chapter headed "Idiopsychological Ethics.
I had got as far as this in thinking the thing out when that "Types of Ethical Theory" caught my eye.
Side-note: Ethical theoryof Aristippus is identical with that of the Platonic Sokrates in the Protagoras.
Side-note: Ethical theory of Aristippus and the Kyrenaic philosophers.
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