| 单词 | moral sciences |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoral sciences moral sciences n. (a) those branches of knowledge which deal with the criteria of right and wrong; (b) Cambridge University politics, philosophy, and economics, as a course of study. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] philosophy1340 ethica1387 moralityc1390 ethics?a1425 moral philosophyc1443 morals?1566 moral science1656 moral sciences1656 ethology1696 aretaics1865 meta-ethics1938 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xxiii. 35 Those very self-same moral Sciences..are reputed meere predantickness. a1729 B. Kennett tr. S. von Pufendorf Law of Nature & Nations (ed. 4) 14 (heading) Most Men deny that there is a demonstrable Certainty in moral Sciences. 1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. Introd. 5 The purpose of the Moral Sciences is to answer the question What ought to be? 1866 Students' Guide Univ. Cambr. 162 The establishment of a Philosophical or Moral Sciences Tripos in the year 1851. 1986 Dict. National Biogr. 1971–80 at Straight, Whitney Willard In October 1931 Straight went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read moral sciences. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 24/2 Economics began as one of the ‘moral sciences’—the eighteenth-century term for the human sciences. < as lemmas |
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