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What Is Morality?

What is morality, after all, but a code of values? A person without morality has no values. Surely everyone values something even if themselves and what makes them happy. With values comes morality. But does one live by the codes of morality that themselves have invented? Although we are born with the potential to develop as moral agents, the course that this developement takes is partially determined by the experiences we have as we learn and grow. Thus, even a society which habitually indulges in practises that we might find entirely immoral, does so in accordance with its own moral code. This is not to say that all moral codes are equal. The other (and more difficult) aspect of morality is the question of moral development: the morals of societies change over time, and, in particular, it is an undeniable fact that individuals and groups arise in all historical societies claiming to be in possession of a higher morality than the one that curently prevails. We thus always find ourselves in a marketplace of competing moralities, and it is not easy, as any conservative will acknowledge, to lay claim to moral infalibility: The question is whether it is possible to live without a moral code.?On the other hand there is the question of whether it is possible to live without morality?

2008-03-08 07:42:00 GMT

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Author:Anonymous

i sometimes question my own moralities but what i see in the world today shows me that many have lost their sense of morility
--nyte

2008-03-08 07:49:31 GMT

Author:Anonymous

Thanks for taking the time to comment on my blog.
--NyteGoddessBoo
<http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/NytegoddessBoo/>

2008-03-08 09:04:50 GMT

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		What Is Morality? What is morality, after all, but a code of values? A person without morality has no values. Surely everyone values something even if themselves and what makes them happy. With values comes morality. But does one live by the codes of morality that themselves have invented? Although we are born with the potential to develop as moral agents, the course that this developement takes is partially determined by the experiences we have as we learn and grow. Thus, even a society which habitually indulges in practises that we might find entirely immoral, does so in accordance with its own moral code. This is not to say that all moral codes are equal. The other (and more difficult) aspect of morality is the question of moral development: the morals of societies change over time, and, in particular, it is an undeniable fact that individuals and groups arise in all historical societies claiming to be in possession of a higher morality than the one that curently prevails. We thus always find ourselves in a marketplace of competing moralities, and it is not easy, as any conservative will acknowledge, to lay claim to moral infalibility: The question is whether it is possible to live without a moral code.?On the other hand there is the question of whether it is possible to live without morality? 2008-03-08 07:42:00 GMT Comments (2 total) Author:Anonymous i sometimes question my own moralities but what i see in the world today shows me that many have lost their sense of morility --nyte 2008-03-08 07:49:31 GMT Author:Anonymous Thanks for taking the time to comment on my blog. --NyteGoddessBoo <http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/NytegoddessBoo/> 2008-03-08 09:04:50 GMT Site Home