Concept
Immorality
Overview
Immorality is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards. It refers to an agent doing or thinking something they know or believe to be wrong. Immorality is normally applied to people or actions, or in a broader sense, it can be applied to groups or corporate bodies, and works of art.
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I shall allow, if you please, that all immorality is derived from this supposed falshood in action, provided you can give me any plausible reason, why such a falshood is immoral. If you consider rightly of the matter, you will find yourself in the same difficulty as at the beginning.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
States what Immorality is; names Immorality twice.
Moralising tendencies may be combated with art. Art is freedom from moral bigotry and philosophy _à la_ Little Jack Horner: or it may be the mockery of these things. The flight to Nature, where beauty and terribleness are coupled. The concept of the great man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power
The author is tied to Immorality in the knowledge graph; names Immorality.
In the second place, it may mean our denying that moral judgments are founded on truths. It is admitted in such a case that these judgments are, in fact, the motives of the actions, but that in this way it is really errors as the basis of all moral judgments which urge men on to their moral actions. This is my point of view; but I should be far from denying that in very many cases a subtle suspicion in accordance…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day
States what Immorality is; the author is tied to Immorality in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Immorality
Related ideas
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gorgias (dialogue)
- Callicles
- Republic (Plato)
- Thrasymachus
- Law
- Max Weber
- Modernism
- Plato
- Psychoanalysis
- Emotivism
- Sigmund Freud
- Sin
- Golden mean (philosophy)
- Aristotle
- Émile Durkheim
- Morality
- Social norm
- Michel Foucault
- Christianity
- Mores
- Islam
- Taboo
- Cultural imperialism
Place in the tradition
Part of Morality.