moral reflections
Pondering right conduct
Moral reflections are thoughts that examine questions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.
The phrase often appears in titles of essays or philosophical works concerned with ethical conduct: His moral reflections on war challenged conventional thinking.
More casually, it describes any contemplation of one's own behavior or choices through an ethical lens: After the argument, she spent the evening in moral reflection.
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- soul searchingHonest internal moral inventory
- golden ruleFundamental operating principle
- deontologyMorality based on obligations
- conscienceInternal moral sense
guilty conscience · justice · self-examination · inner voice · consequentialism · guilt · empathy · integrity · social contracts · fairness · utilitarianism · altruism · human rights · contemplation · civic duty · introspection · ethical dilemma · collective responsibility
- Reflections and Maximsaphorisms, maxims, epigrams, proverbs, sayings
- sayingssayings, saying, proverb, proverbs, adage
- French EnlightenmentVoltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu
- Tolstoyismnonviolence, pacifism, simple living, nonresistance, non-resistance
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