What is the function of morality?

(1) always serves the economic base that produced it. It morally demonstrates the rationality and justice of its economic base with its own standards of good and evil, promotes the formation and consolidation of its own economic base, and condemns and denies thoughts and behaviors that are not conducive to its own economic base;

(2) In class society, morality is one of the tools of class struggle, and the morality of the ruling class defends the interests of the ruling class and is the spiritual force to maintain its class rule. The morality of the ruled class represents the resistance of the oppressed to this rule and future interests.

(3) All progressive morals always play a positive role in promoting the development of productive forces and science and technology, while all backward and decadent virtues always play a negative role in hindering the development of productive forces and science and technology.

(4) Morality also plays an important role in the superstructure and other fields of social life order.

Extended data:

Marxism holds that morality is a kind of social ideology, and it is the norm and norm of people's common life and behavior. Different times and classes have different moral concepts, and no morality is eternal.

Morality is not innate, and people's moral concept is gradually formed by acquired publicity and education and the long-term influence of public opinion. This is a kind of moral relativism, and the opposite proposition is called moral absolutism. Morality is often compared with conscience, which refers to the psychological consciousness of consciously following the mainstream moral norms.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Moral Function