Briefly describe the origin and characteristics of morality.

Morality fundamentally comes from the unity of desire and reason, and practice or activity comes from desire rather than reason. Reason can only distinguish right from wrong without causing any activity. Desire, on the other hand, can cause activities, but it cannot distinguish right from wrong.

Desire can obey reason or oppose it. The desire to obey reason leads to a good choice, while the desire to oppose reason leads to a bad choice, and morality lies in this good choice.

Characteristics of morality:

The standard of morality is freedom, and the definition of freedom is neither oppression nor oppression. Specifically, we can't force the ancients to follow today's morality, nor can we force children to follow the morality of adults, let alone women to follow the morality of men.

Nor can we force the poor to follow the morality of the rich, nor can we force the developing countries to follow the morality of the developed countries. This statement is also correct in turn. We can't force people today to follow the morality of the ancients.

Nor can we force adults to follow the morality of children, nor can we force men to follow the morality of women, nor can we force the rich to follow the morality of the poor, nor can we force developed countries to follow the morality of developing countries.

Extended data:

Morality is unique in human social life, determined by economic relations, maintained by public opinion, traditional habits and people's inner beliefs, and the sum of principles and norms of good and evil evaluation, psychological consciousness and behavioral activities.

It is a reflection of social material conditions and a social ideology determined by a certain social and economic foundation. The nature of social economic foundation determines the nature of various social morals. What kind of economic foundation there is, what kind of social morality there is.

And the class that occupies a dominant position in social and economic relations must also occupy a dominant position in morality. The change of social economic foundation will inevitably lead to the change of social morality. It can be said that interest is the basis of morality.

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