What are the basic characteristics of morality

Morality has distinctive class, ****similarity, inheritance, stability, self-discipline, altruism and multi-level. Morality is one of the social ideologies, the guidelines and norms of people's *** same life and their behavior. Morality plays a restraining role on social life through the public opinion of the society or a certain class.

Wideness of the role of morality: morality as a behavioral norm regulating the relationship between human beings and human beings, individuals and society of various interests, and its role throughout the various social forms of mankind, and widely exist in all areas of social relations. Morality as an independent ideology, the scope involved is more extensive than politics, law, religion and so on. The extensive role of morality requires everyone to speak morally and consciously abide by the norms of morality.

The class nature of moral content: in a class society, because people are in different economic positions, class interests are bound to be different. This results in the formation of different or even completely opposed moral concepts, moral principles and norms, as well as different standards of moral evaluation and so on.

The inheritance of moral form: morality as a relatively independent ideology, has its own development process. The human understanding of moral norms has gone through a tortuous process of progress. In addition to the distinctive class content of the morality of each class in the class society, there are some consistency and similarity, that is, people must universally follow the *** same code of conduct.