Concept
Mores
Overview
customary behaviour
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Sec. 3. CONDITIONS WHICH BRING OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF GROUP STANDARDS AND RENDER GROUP CONTROL CONSCIOUS Although customs or mores have in them an element of social approval which makes them vehicles of moral judgment, they tend in many cases to sink to the level of mere habits. The reason--such as it was--for their original force--is forgotten. They become, like many of our forms of etiquette, mere conventions.
John Dewey, Ethics
The chapter “GROUP MORALITY--CUSTOMS OR MORES” is titled for Mores; opens on Mores.
And yet thou seest _Customs_ which, in all civilised countries, are accounted final; nay, under the Old-Roman name of _Mores_, are accounted _Morality_, Virtue, Laws of God Himself. Such, I assure thee, not a few of them are; such almost all of them once were.
Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
Close in meaning to Mores; the term itself is not named.
As it is now needless to forbid man-eating and Fetishism, so will it ultimately become needless to forbid murder, theft, and the minor offences of our criminal code. When human nature has grown into conformity with the moral law, there will need no judges and statute-books; when it spontaneously takes the right course in all things, as in some things it does already, prospects of future reward or punishment will not…
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
States what Mores is.
Philosophers who discussed Mores
Related ideas
- Ritual
- Ethnicity
- Justice
- Plagiarism
- University
- Nation
- Ten Commandments
- Academic Press
- United States
- Business
- Salah
- Baptism
- Morality
- Cultural identity
- William Graham Sumner
- Taboo
- Convention (norm)
- Ethos
- Ethics
- Peer pressure
- Ceremony
- The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
- Face (sociological concept)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Conservatism.