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Morality
About: Morality is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 22623 publications have been published within this topic receiving 545733 citations. The topic is also known as: moral & morals.
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TL;DR: NuccI as discussed by the authors found that children and adolescents make a conceptual distinction between events defined as personal matters and issues of morality or social convention, and found that subjects at all ages ranked moral violations as more wrong than violations of convention Social conventional violations, in turn, were ranked as more right than the commission of acts in the personal domain.
Abstract: NuccI, LARRY Conceptions of Personal Issues: A Domain Distinct from Moral or Societal Concepts CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1981, 52, 114-121 The study employed a series of sorting tasks with 80 subjects (age 7-20) to determine whether children and adolescents make a conceptual distinction between events defined as personal matters and issues of morality or social convention It was found that subjects at all ages ranked moral violations as more wrong than violations of convention Social conventional violations, in turn, were ranked as more wrong than the commission of acts in the personal domain Reasons given for event rankings were consistent with the moral, conventional, or personal nature of acts In other sorting tasks, subjects ranked moral transgressions as wrong even in the absence of governing rules In the final task, subjects sorted acts in the personal domain as their own business and, as such, acts which should not be rule governed
479 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that economic equality is not, as such, of particular moral importance, and that what is important from the point of view of morality is not that everyone should have the same but that each should have enough.
Abstract: Economic egalitarianism is, as I shall construe it, the doctrine that it is desirable for everyone to have the same amounts of income and of wealth (for short, "money"). 1 Hardly anyone would deny that there are situations in which it makes sense to tolerate deviations from this standard. It goes without saying, after all, that preventing or correcting such deviations may involve costs which-whether measured in economic terms or in terms of noneconomic considerations-are by any reasonable measure unacceptable. Nonetheless, many people believe that economic equality has considerable moral value in itself. For this reason they often urge that efforts to approach the egalitarian ideal should be accorded-with all due consideration for the possible effects of such efforts in obstructing or in conducing to the achievement of other goods-a significant priority.2 In my opinion, this is a mistake. Economic equality is not, as such, of particular moral importance. With respect to the distribution of economic assets, what is important from the point of view of morality is not that everyone should have the same but that each should have enough. If everyone had enough, it would be of no moral consequence whether some had more than others. I shall refer to this alternative to egalitarianism-
472 citations
01 Sep 2010
TL;DR: This article examined whether morality really evolved, as many philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and biologists claim, and concluded that two versions of the claim are relatively well supported, but that they are unlikely to have significant philosophical consequences, while the stronger version is in fact empirically unsupported.
Abstract: This chapter examines whether morality really evolved, as many philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and biologists claim. It distinguishes three possible versions of this claim and reviews the evidence in support of each. It concludes that two versions of the claim that morality evolved are relatively well supported, but that they are unlikely to have significant philosophical consequences, while the stronger version, which is of real interest to philosophers, is in fact empirically unsupported.
471 citations
TL;DR: This article examined philosophical and religious traditions in China (Confucianism and Taoism), South Asia (Buddhism and Hinduism), and the West (Athenian philosophy, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) for the answers each provided to questions of moral behavior and the good life.
Abstract: Positive psychology needs an agreed-upon way of classifying positive traits as a backbone for research, diagnosis, and intervention. As a 1st step toward classification, the authors examined philosophical and religious traditions in China (Confucianism and Taoism), South Asia (Buddhism and Hinduism), and the West (Athenian philosophy, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) for the answers each provided to questions of moral behavior and the good life. The authors found that 6 core virtues recurred in these writings: courage, justice, humanity, temperance, wisdom, and transcendence. This convergence suggests a nonarbitrary foundation for the classification of human strengths and virtues.
470 citations
01 Nov 1989
TL;DR: In this article, the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges, is discussed, emphasizing the enormous cultural variation in the way money is symbolized and how this symbolism relates to culturally constructed notions of production, consumption, circulation and exchange.
Abstract: This collection is concerned with the symbolic representation of money in a range of different societies, and more specifically with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges. It focuses on the different cultural meanings surrounding monetary transactions, emphasizing the enormous cultural variation in the way money is symbolized and how this symbolism relates to culturally constructed notions of production, consumption, circulation, and exchange.
469 citations