What is the basis of morality?

The formation of social relations is the objective condition for the generation of morality, the subjective condition is the formation and development of people's self-consciousness, and morality refers to the conceptual standard to measure the legitimacy of behavior. Different standards of right and wrong are naturally formed under specific production capacity, production relations and life forms. It only involves the morality of personal relationships between individuals, individuals, families and so on. It is called private virtue; Morality involving social morality is called social morality.

The relatively stable and consistent characteristics and tendencies of individuals in moral behavior. It is the embodiment of moral principles and norms of a certain society in personal thoughts and behaviors. It consists of moral cognition, moral emotion, moral belief, moral will and moral behavior. In the socialist period of our country, it is the * * * socialist moral quality that is the noblest and best reflects the interests of the proletariat and the broad masses of working people.

Although human morality is universal in some aspects, there are often some different moral concepts in different times and societies. In different cultures, the moral elements they attach importance to, their priorities and their moral standards are often different; The external manifestations and customs of the same morality in different cultural and social backgrounds are often far apart.

Extended data:

Morality, as a social ideology, 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.