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Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development constitute an adaptation of a psychological theory originally conceived by the Swiss psychologist Jean...

"appropriateness" or "rightness". Moral philosophy includes meta-ethics, which studies abstract issues such as moral ontology and moral epistemology, and normative...

Look up moral turpitude in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the United States, and until 1976 in Canada, that refers...

Moral development focuses on the emergence, change, and understanding of morality from infancy through adulthood. The theory states that morality develops...

Moral agency is an individual's ability to make moral choices based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions. A...

Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several philosophical positions...

A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society...

which is itself incapable of limitation. A famous claim of the self-evidence of a moral truth is in the United States Declaration of Independence, which...

Many moral skeptics also make the stronger, modal claim that moral knowledge is impossible. Moral skepticism is particularly opposed to moral realism:...

have a firm subjective gut feeling of guilt – a feeling of moral certainty – without the evidence necessarily justifying a guilty conviction. Argument from...

moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission in accordance with one's moral obligations...

should be pronounced guilty. The term connotes that evidence establishes a particular point to a moral certainty which precludes the existence of any reasonable...

Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, considered...

Moral reasoning is the study of how people think about right and wrong and how they acquire and apply moral rules. It is a subdiscipline of moral psychology...

A moral hierarchy is a hierarchy by which actions are ranked by their morality, with respect to a moral code. It also refers to a relationship – such...

Moral universalism (also called moral objectivism) is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally...

are moral judgment, moral reasoning, moral sensitivity, moral responsibility, moral motivation, moral identity, moral action, moral development, moral diversity...

Moral disengagement is a meaning from Developmental psychology, educational psychology and social psychology for the process of convincing the self that...

The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic...

In economics, a moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full...