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 moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered—and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Oh, Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
    The maker’s rage to order words of the sea,
    Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
    And of ourselves and of our origins,
    In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)