What do you think morality is?

Question

What do you think morality is?

Answer 1

Natural law of right and wrong, which transcends our opinion of what it is.

Answer 2

Morality is a social implement that attempts to strike a balance between an individual's desire for autonomy and his realization of necessity and social interdependence.

Answer 3

The word describing the way of living of the preserved minds and souls...

The way to the original ways, the superior human which beat the c**p out of Evil...

Answer 4

Non-existent. Morality, immorality, good & bad are only perspectives. The morality you are talking about would be the set of unspoken rules that is agreed on by the majority of people as a perspective that others should follow.

Answer 5

boils down to pragmatism.  what actually works in the long run for individuals and society as a whole, at the same time.

Answer 6

The capability in the human soul/mind to choose between good and evil consciously. :D

Answer 7

In its first descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong, morals are created by and define society, philosophy, religion, or individual conscience.

In its second, normative and universal sense, morality refers to an ideal code of conduct, one which would be espoused in preference to alternatives by all rational people, under specified conditions. To deny 'morality' in this sense is a position known as moral skepticism.

In its third usage, 'morality' is synonymous with ethics, the systematic philosophical study of the moral domain.

Answer 8

Morality is empathy.

Answer 9

Lao Tzu said in his to confucious in a chance meeting- " A virtuous man does not know virtue he doesnt even know the meaning of the word." I think it is the same with morality, a truly moral person does not know what morals are because being moral you act and not think, thinking moral thoughts is just cultivating morality, it is not true morality. True morality is having morals without knowing you have them.

Answer 10

an illusion to make people think that what they believe is right

Answer 11

Morality (from the Latin moralitas "manner, character, proper behavior") has three principal meanings.

In its first descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong. Morals are created by and define society, philosophy, religion, or individual conscience.

In its second, normative and universal sense, morality refers to an ideal code of conduct, one which would be espoused in preference to alternatives by all rational people, under specified conditions. To deny 'morality' in this sense is a position known as moral skepticism.[1]

In its third usage, 'morality' is synonymous with ethics, the systematic philosophical study of the moral domain.[2]

Ethics seeks to address questions such as how a moral outcome can be achieved in a specific situation (applied ethics), how moral values should be determined (normative ethics), what morals people actually abide by (descriptive ethics), what the fundamental nature of ethics or morality is, including whether it has any objective justification (meta-ethics), and how moral capacity or moral agency develops and what its nature is (moral psychology).[3] In applied ethics, for example, the prohibition against taking human life is controversial with respect to capital punishment, abortion and wars of invasion. In normative ethics, a typical question might be whether a lie told for the sake of protecting someone from harm is justified. In meta-ethics, a key issue is the meaning of the terms "right" or "wrong". Moral realism would hold that there are true moral statements which report objective moral facts, whereas moral anti-realism would hold that morality is derived from any one of the norms prevalent in society (cultural relativism); the edicts of a god (divine command theory); is merely an expression of the speakers' sentiments (emotivism); an implied imperative (prescriptive); falsely presupposes that there are objective moral facts (error theory). Some thinkers hold that there is no correct definition of right behavior, that morality can only be judged with respect to particular situations, within the standards of particular belief systems and socio-historical contexts. This position, known as moral relativism, often cites empirical evidence from anthropology as evidence to support its claims.[4] The opposite view, that there are universal, eternal moral truths is known as moral absolutism. Moral absolutists might concede that forces of social conformity significantly shape moral decisions, but deny that cultural norms and customs define morally right behavior.