Morality
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Now, they don't develop
morality
to the point of carrying the shopping bags of little old mice across the street, but their improved environment results in healthy, sociable behavior.
If you think about the 18th century, say, if you think about intellectual life before the late 19th century, anything you did, anything you thought about, whether it was the physical world, the human world, the natural world apart from the human world, or morality, anything you did would have been framed against the background of a set of assumptions that were religious, Christian assumptions.
And this principle of impartiality manifests itself in all of the world's religions, in all of the different versions of the golden rule, and in all of the world's moral philosophies, which differ in many ways but share the presupposition that we should judge
morality
from sort of an impartial point of view.
Her individual
morality
was so strongly rooted that she had the courage to hold both things.
We can see trees being used to map morality, with the popular tree of virtues and tree of vices, as you can see here, with these beautiful illustrations from medieval Europe.
Because religion doesn't just create the roots of morality, it creates the seeds of normality.
We need to reclaim
morality
in a secular context that creates ethical scrutiny and accountability for religions all around the world, but we need to do it in a respectful way that breeds cooperation and not extremism.
Obsessions can manifest as fears of contamination and illness, worries about harming others, or preoccupations with numbers, patterns, morality, or sexual identity.
And if you are one of those people who is sitting out there right now already coming up with a list of reasons in your head why this is not a priority, or it's too expensive, or telling yourself that giving a trans person a safe place to pee or get changed in supports a lifestyle choice that you feel offends your morality, or your masculinity, or your religious beliefs, then let me just appeal to the part of your heart that probably, hopefully, does care about the rest of the population.
Believing in something should not come at the cost of your family and friends, and if someone tells you to sacrifice your relationships or
morality
for the greater good, they're most likely exploiting you for their own.
It really does feel like the ground that we're on is a ground populated by deep questions of
morality
and human nature.
Your personality and
morality
are disengaged.
They'll look at the way we talk about
morality
as being true to oneself, the way we talk about politics as a matter of individual rights, and they'll look at this wonderful new religious ritual we have created.
Throughout, Machiavelli appears entirely unconcerned with morality, except insofar as it’s helpful or harmful to maintaining power.
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin suggested that rather than being amoral, The Prince hearkens back to ancient Greek morality, placing the glory of the state above the Christian ideal of individual salvation.
Let's start at the beginning: What is morality, where does it come from?
To find out, my colleague Craig Joseph and I read through the literature on anthropology, on culture variation in
morality
and also on evolutionary psychology, looking for matches: What sorts of things do people talk about across disciplines that you find across cultures and even species?
We found five best matches, which we call the five foundations of
morality.
They're basically saying, "This is not
morality.
We can say liberals have a two-channel or two-foundation
morality.
Conservatives have more of a five-foundation, or five-channel
morality.
Traditional authority and
morality
can be quite repressive and restrictive to those at the bottom, to women, to people who don't fit in.
But it can reach areas for things like morality, fear or emotional processing or areas for self-awareness.
Yet although the book is deeply concerned with morality, "Crime and Punishment" never comes across as merely moralizing, with each character given their own distinctive and convincing voice.
It causes people who engage in that activity to lose morale and it causes the activity itself to lose
morality.
This is how diverse we humans are when it comes to
morality.
When we remind people about their morality, they cheat less.
200 years ago, in Parliament, in Great Britain, there was a long argument over economy versus
morality.
And we need to do it not within 20 years or 50 years, but within this presidential term because if we don't, we will lose our economy, right after we'd lost our
morality.
This is the source of all morality, this imaginative act of empathy, putting yourself in the place of another.
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