Concept
Morality
Overview
normative standard evaluating actions and character traits as right or wrong, virtuous or vicious, honorable or disgraceful; varies across individuals, societies, cultures, and traditions, informing judgments about moral and immoral behavior
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CONCEPTION OF THE MORALITY OF CUSTOM.—In comparison with the mode of life which prevailed among men for thousands of years, we men of the present day are living in a very immoral age: the power of custom has been weakened to a remarkable degree, and the sense of morality is so refined and elevated that we might almost describe it as volatilised. That is why we late comers experience such difficulty in obtaining a…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day
Names Morality several times; states what Morality is.
In other words, group morality does not vanish in order that conscious and personal morality may take its place. Group and customary morality is still the morality of many of us most of the time, and of all of us for a good deal of the time.
John Dewey, Ethics
The chapter “A GENERAL COMPARISON OF CUSTOMARY AND REFLECTIVE MORALITY” is titled for Morality; names Morality several times.
And, to tell the truth, this is my opinion. The teachers and I leaders of mankind--including the theologians--have been, every one of them, decadents: hence their) transvaluation of all values into a hostility towards; life; hence morality. _The definition of morality;_ Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents, actuated by a desire _to avenge themselves with success upon life._ I attach great value to this…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
Names Morality several times; states what Morality is.
Philosophers who discussed Morality
- John Gray (philosopher)
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Robert L. Holmes
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Philippa Foot
- Mulla Sadra
- William Godwin
- Immanuel Kant
- Stephen Toulmin
- Jürgen Habermas
- Karl Marx
- Dugald Stewart
- Baron d'Holbach
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Intellectual
- John Anderson (philosopher)
- Sam Harris
- Plutarch
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Thomas Reid
- Crispin Wright
- Ferdinand Tönnies
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Nick Bostrom
Related ideas
- Egalitarianism
- Moral agency
- Moral nihilism
- Belief
- Gender equality
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Jonathan Haidt
- Hinduism
- Philosophy
- Halakha
- Moral universalism
- Vice
- Immanuel Kant
- Judaism
- Love
- Latin
- Hypocrisy
- Metaethics
- Doctrine
- Marxism
- Culture
- Liberalism
- Monotheism
- Conformity
Opposing perspectives
- Justice
- Well-being
- Truth
- Developmental psychology
- Evolution
- Proposition
- Descriptive ethics
- Universal value
- Intrinsic and extrinsic properties (philosophy)
- Outline of ethics
- Obedience
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
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