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 |
| utilitarian philosopher | 5 |
| metaethicist | 2 |
| Catholic moral philosopher | 1 |
| ethical thinker | 1 |
| ethics professor | 1 |
| moral teacher | 1 |
| natural law theorist | 1 |
| secular ethicist | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|
| C. L. Stevenson | metaethicist |
| John Grote | — |
| Susan Wolf | — |
| Tommaso de Vio Cajetan | Italian philosopher |
| Gianni Vattimo | Italian philosopher |
| William Paley | — |
| James Beattie | — |
|
Shaftesbury family
surface form:
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
|
— |
| Joseph Raz | — |
| Christian Fürchtegott Gellert | — |
| Hillel the Elder | — |
| Shelley Kagan | — |
| Bernard Williams | — |
| Giambattista Vico | Italian philosopher |
| Henry Sidgwick | utilitarian philosopher |
| Germain Grisez | Catholic moral philosopher |
|
Jonathan Glover (philosopher)
surface form:
Jonathan Glover
|
— |
| Peter Singer | — |
| Johann Kaspar Schmidt | 19th-century philosopher |
| Chidi Anagonye | ethics professor |
| T. M. Scanlon | — |
| C. H. Weisse | 19th-century philosopher |
| Robert Sanderson | — |
| Roger Crisp | — |