Quotes About Morality

Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.

Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain in base ones. Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

Another way of putting this point is to say that morality is not empirical. It stands at a certain distance from the world. It passes judgment on the world. Science can't, for all its power and insight, reach moral questions, because it operates within the sensible realm.

How does the economist help? By promoting policies that rely, whenever possible, on self-interest rather than altruism or moral considerations, the economist saves society from squandering its scarce supply of virtue. "If we economists do [our] business well," Robertson concludes, "we can, I believe, contribute mightily to the economizing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ of that scarce resource Love," the "most precious thing in the world."49

Conformity, in Mill's account, is the enemy of the best way to live.

For Aristotle, politics is about something higher. It's about learning how to live a good life.

Nó không d?y chúng ta cách phân bi?t Ä'úng sai, mà "ch? làm th? nào ?? tính toán gi?i hÆ¡n".

From Aristotle to the American republican tradition, from Hegel to Catholic social teaching, theories of contributive justice teach us that we are most fully human when we contribute to the common good and earn the esteem of our fellow citizens for the contributions we make.

Tôi không có quy?n tÆ°á»›c Ä'o?t Ä'i m?ng s?ng c?a chính b?n thân tôi hay ng??i khác.

But it is also because, having worked hard to achieve a modicum of success, they had accepted the harsh verdict of the market in their own case, and were invested in it, morally and psychologically.

Cô không có lá»—i khi tình c? ? trong má»™t xã há»™i không c?n nh?ng ph?m ch?t c?a cô.

B?n ph?i thá»±c hành [...]: "Chúng ta tr? thành ng??i công b?ng b?ng cách thá»±c hi?n công b?ng, tr? thành ng??i ôn hòa b?ng cách hành Ä'á»™ng ôn hòa, tr? thành ng??i dÅ©ng c?m b?ng cách thá»±c hi?n hành Ä'á»™ng dÅ©ng c?m".

Chìm ng?p trong hành vi ??o ??c giúp chúng ta có ???c khuynh hÆ°á»›ng hành Ä'á»™ng có ??o ??c

But differences of talent are as morally arbitrary as differences of class.23

Quienes ensalzan el ideal meritocrático y lo convierten en el centro de su proyecto político pasan por alto esta cuestión moral, pero también ignoran algo más poderoso desde el punto de vista político: las actitudes muy poco atractivas (desde la perspectiva moral) que la ética meritocrática fomenta, tanto entre los ganadores como entre los perdedores. Entre los primeros promueve la soberbia; entre los segundos, la humillación y el resentimiento.

Sin embargo, ayudar a los desfavorecidos porque son víctimas de circunstancias que escapan a su control tiene un precio moral y cívico elevado. Da pábulo a la idea denigrante de que los perceptores de ayudas públicas tienen poco que contribuir y son incapaces de ser agentes responsables.

En una sociedad desigual, quienes aterrizan en la cima quieren creer que su éxito tiene una justificación moral. En una sociedad meritocrática, eso significa que los ganadores deben creer que se han «ganado» el éxito gracias a su propio talento y esfuerzo.

maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue. Each of these ideas points to a different way of thinking about justice.

Recall the richly compensated meth dealer and the modestly paid high school teacher.)

In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified. In a meritocratic society, this means the winners must believe they have earned their success through their own talent and hard work.

Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.

People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.

Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

We judge ourselves by our best acts and most noble intentions, but we will be judged by our last worst act.