What are the characteristics of morality?

1. Closely related to practice and activity

All human activities are aimed at some kind of happiness, the difference being in the kind of happiness and the degree of completeness. The activity of morality, since it is an activity, is of course no exception to the rule that it is also in pursuit of some kind of happiness.

The human soul may be roughly divided into three parts, namely, the part of nourishment and reproduction, the part of feeling and desire, and the part of mind and reason. Since morality is closely related to practice and activity, it aims at the pursuit of happiness in the feeling and desire part of the human soul.

2. Ethnicity

Ethnicity is the individuality of a nation that distinguishes it from other nations, including its spirit, temperament, mentality, feelings, character, language, customs, habits, interests, ideals, traditions, and the way of life and the way of understanding things. The principles and standards of morality also differ from one nation to another.

3, acquired

Morality is not innate, human moral concepts are gradually formed by acquired publicity and education and the long-term influence of social opinion. This is a kind of moral relativism, and the opposite claim is called moral absolutism. Morality is often talked about together with conscience, which refers to the psychological sense of consciously following the prevailing moral norms.

Expanded Information

In contrast to Western cultures, where morality has been viewed as a separate and distinct unit (ethics in philosophy) since Ancient Greece, in ancient China there was no special distinction between the moral realm (Moral) and the amoral realm. (Amoral, as opposed to Immoral, which refers to immorality) (the Chinese words Dao and De are often used together, and there is no clear distinction between truth, goodness and beauty).

The line between the two is blurred and often integrated (the Confucian ideal of the world is an example, as is the lack of distinction between literature, history, and philosophy, which is largely influenced by the ideas of yin and yang, the five elements, and the unity of mankind).

In Hebrew, Islamic, and Indian cultures, morality is attached to religion, such as Jehovah or Allah or Dharma (Indian philosophy), and is not an independent unit; in primitive tribes (Africans, Indians, Australian aborigines, Taiwanese aborigines, etc.), morality is usually attached to traditional customs, and is not an independent unit.

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