Moral Order

Moral order may refer to :

  • Moral order is the name given to the conservative and monarchic French government of Patrice de Mac-Mahon in the late 19th century.
  • Moral order is the name given to Immanuel Kant's rendering of the metaphysical argument from morality.

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or order:

    “The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)