Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Introduction to Moral Paradigms




    What is the thing that defines moralities ? . What is the set of values and behavior which makes mankind a moral species . Why there are a differences in moral codes between societies , and even between individuals within the same society, which causes an ideological conflict for a certain limit . How to judge morality ? And based on what criteria ? . Do we judge based on religious or cultural background, based on our emotional status , based on civil laws , based on the consequences of the behaviors , or based on mixture generated by summation of some or all the bases which mentioned before. Is there any difference between individual and social moralities, and why.

    Morality by definition at least from my point of view is a set of values or legislation, differentiates between what is good and what is bad for the society and individuals, from a social point of view, which preserves society and individual existence to a certain limit, but i think that this is a pretty vague definition , do you know what is missing in the definition ? No. The answer will be there is no place for individualism in the context of morality. You code have a moral set of values as an individual , but I'm afraid its not counted when comes to a greater good “the society” if the society didn't accept it, another thing ; what is the relation between moral set of values and cognition , does any one has a precedence over the other.

   Moral values have been changed predominantly or for a certain period of time across the history. This changes happened because of the religions, cultures, traditions, knowledge , or because of any extreme situations like wars , famine , diseases, or social and political status ; and here i couldn't stand the idea of not asking the following question . Why morality set of values should be changed any way? . Why there is no standards for something very important which has been there since the genesis of human species. In order to understand morality lets go back in time using the time machine or what ever available to us , and address it form the early beginning until recent days . This study will focus on the major changes on the morality set of values and what led to those changes , and why . I will impose my ideas at the end . So lets start.

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