moral philosopher

C1768
concept

A moral philosopher is a thinker who systematically examines questions of right and wrong, virtue, justice, and the good life, using reasoned argument to analyze and evaluate ethical beliefs and practices.

All labels observed (11)

Label Occurrences
moral philosopher canonical 44
Italian philosopher 13
19th-century philosopher 9

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: moral philosopher
Generated description
A moral philosopher is a thinker who systematically examines questions of right and wrong, virtue, justice, and the good life, using reasoned argument to analyze and evaluate ethical beliefs and practices.

Instances (74)

Instance Via concept surface
Giuseppe Gioberti Italian philosopher
Bartolomeo Mastri Italian philosopher
Christian Hermann Weisse 19th-century philosopher
Norberto Bobbio Italian philosopher
Auguste Comte 19th-century philosopher
W. D. Ross —
Paul-Henri Thiry secular ethicist
James Mill utilitarian philosopher
Harriet Taylor Mill 19th-century philosopher
Yisrael Salanter —
St. Thomas Aquinas —
William Ames —
John Rawls —
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury —
Richard Price —
H. A. Prichard —
Harriet Hardy 19th-century philosopher
John Finnis —
Alasdair MacIntyre —
Thiruvalluvar moral teacher
Pico della Mirandola Italian philosopher
Max Stirner 19th-century philosopher
John Broome —
Cato the Elder —
Roberto Esposito Italian philosopher
Richard Price —
Judith Jarvis Thomson —
Francis Hutcheson —
Derek Parfit —
Leo Tolstoy —
Antonio Genovesi Italian philosopher
Prodicus —
Giovanni Gentile Italian philosopher
R. M. Hare —
John Stuart Mill as logician 19th-century philosopher
Francis Wayland —
Ludwig Feuerbach 19th-century philosopher
Giandomenico Romagnosi Italian philosopher
Philip Stratton-Lake —
Mary Midgley —
Carlo Cattaneo Italian philosopher
Samuel Pufendorf natural law theorist
Thomas Gisborne —
Bertrando Spaventa Italian philosopher
Guilielmus Amesius —
Abu Ali Ibn Miskawayh
linked to: Abu Ali
ethical thinker
Yisrael Lipkin —
Jim Casy —
Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve —
Epictetus —