It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.
Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.
Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.