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 civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)