A person who studies the branch of philosophy concerned with ethics.
pity has a bad reputation among many moral philosophers
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An academic lawyer and moral philosopher, he has become a key player in the medical elite.
The nominal hero of the film is a smug writer manqué who is also something of a moral philosopher, given to sermonizing on the virtues of responsibility, community, and the common good.
He was the most influential moral philosopher in the second half of the twentieth century.
MacIntyre has since become the leading light of virtue ethics, and one of the most influential Catholic moral philosophers.
He was a moral philosopher who wrestled throughout his life with the link, if any, between public and private duty.
The best way to characterize his contribution in the ethical sphere is, perhaps, to say that he was much more a moralist than a moral philosopher.
In calling for a new approach, she draws on moral philosopher Alistair McIntyre's theory of narrative.
Most contemporary moral philosophers are much more admiring of justice and rights.
This theory of propertied individualism was then supported and popularized by Scottish moral philosophers from Hutcheson to Adam Smith.
In Britain, moral philosophers and theologians had already prepared the ground with their theories on "moral sense."