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As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the position that ethical claims have truth values, but their truth conditions consist not in a set of objective facts to which they correspond, but instead in the outcome of some procedure of deliberation resulting in decisions about what to do.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

A star's the work - the work ethic you put into the business, and the people you excite. We only wanted to excite only a few people at that time, which was some o' the emcees that was hot that was in the game.

As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.

Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea is that moral principles can help us to a moral explanation of our particular obligations.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

Duty is what one expects from others.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

Ethics are more important than laws.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.