moral degeneration

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• Moral relativism — For other uses, see Relativism Moral relativism may be any of several descriptive, meta ethical, or normative positions. Each of them is concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures: Descriptive… …   Wikipedia

• Degeneration (Max Nordau) — Degeneration   Author(s) Max Nordau Original title Entartung …   Wikipedia

• Moral insanity — (Latin mania sine delirio; French folie raisonnante or folie lucide raisonnante, monomanie affective; German Moralisches Irresein[1]) is a medical diagnosis first described by the French humanitarian and psychiatrist Philippe Pinel in 1806.[2]… …   Wikipedia

• Degeneration — This article is about the social philosophical meaning of degeneration. For other uses, see Degeneration (disambiguation) and Degeneracy (disambiguation). The idea of degeneration had significant influence on science, art and politics from the… …   Wikipedia

• degeneration — 1. Deterioration; passing from a higher to a lower level or type. 2. A worsening of mental, physical, or moral qualities. 3. A retrogressive pathologic change in cells or tissues, in consequence of which their functions are often impaired or… …   Medical dictionary

• Moral insanity —    (insanity without hallucinations or delusions). See Prichard, James Cowles (1835).    Distinction between momentary symptom picture and underlying disease process in psychiatry (1844). To some extent, physicians have always been aware that the …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• degeneration — degenerate ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having lost normal and desirable qualities; showing evidence of moral or physical decline. ► NOUN ▪ a morally degenerate person. ► VERB ▪ deteriorate physically or morally. DERIVATIVES degeneracy noun degenerately adverb …   English terms dictionary

• degeneration — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, abjection, about face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, atrophy, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, closed loop, closed sequence …   Moby Thesaurus

• moral turpitude — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abandonment, abjection, baseness, chicanery, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, debasement, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravation,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• degeneration — noun Date: 15th century 1. degenerate condition 2. a lowering of effective power, vitality, or essential quality to an enfeebled and worsened kind or state 3. intellectual, moral, or artistic decline …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• moral decay — spiritual decline, cultural decline, spiritual degeneration …   English contemporary dictionary