2. Moral values can give meaning and purpose to your life. You’re able to direct
your behavior towards beneficial and fulfilling activities. When you are living
your life according to moral values that are based on honesty, compassion,
courage, modesty, and forgiveness you can show good conduct. Then you can
also form positive bonds with others. Moral values are extremely important for
your overall well-being. Moral values provide a structure for your life. Honesty
makes you respectable. Compassion makes you sympathetic to others. Courage
gives you the bravery to overcome life’s challenges . Moral values are incredibly
essential for your overall well-being. Moral values offer a structure for your
life. Honesty creates you respectable. Compassion makes you sympathetic to
others. Courage gives you the bravery to overcome life’s challenges.
“The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges
on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are
moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws . (from "Rediscovering
Lost Values")” Martin Luther King Jr .
INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW
3. What are morals? moral are principles or habits with respect to right or wrong
conduct.
How do morals affect people? moral values are the essential building blocks
of our character and nature and the sum total of our character and our nature
is what we all are as human beings.
Do teens know what morals are?
According to Piaget, youth develop the morality of cooperation, at the age of
10 years or older. As youth develop a morality of cooperation they realize that
in order to create a cooperative society people must work together to decide
what is acceptable, and what is not. Piaget believed that youth at this age
begin to understand that morals represent social agreements between people
and are intended to promote the common good.
Do people think morals are important? Yes most people feel some sort of
morals are critical.
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
HOW DO MORALS AFFECT US ALL?
4. How morals have changed:
Marriage
Having children at a young age
Education
Sexual Activity
Schooling
Poverty
Family values
What was the cause for the changes?
Morality is the standards for behavior that exist at some point in
time. Compared to ethics, morality undergoes changes frequently.
Relating to matters of right and wrong and to how individual people
should conduct themselves?
Morals are differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those
that are "good" and those that are "bad”. Morality may also be
specifically synonymous with "goodness" or "rightness.
INTERVIEWS & FIELDWORK
5. Based on somebody's principle suggests is right or wrong, rather than
on what rules or the law says should be done?
Ethics and morals both relate to “right” and “wrong” conduct.
However, ethics refers to the series of rules provided to an individual by an
external source of their profession. On the other hand, morals refers to an
individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong.
Ethics are the rules of conduct recognized in respect to human action or a
group, culture. We do these things because society says it is the right thing to
do. If we don’t do these correctly we will face peer/social disapproval.
Morals and ethics work side by side one is just the code of our culture, social
group says our correct. Morals are the principles or habit with respect to doing
the right or wrong conduct. This is our Individual or internal rules. When doing
something that is not moral we are doing something against our own principles
and they can have a different effect on different people and maybe even make
them uncomfortable. Morals are consistent and although they can change if
beliefs change.
COMPARISON WITH BEHAVIOR TO RULE OR LAWS
6. According to common standard of justice: regarded in terms
of what is known to be right or just, as opposed to what is
officially or outwardly declared to be right or just.
“Different cultures have dif ferent moral codes” —this is the key to understanding morality.
Cultural relativism is the belief that morality “finds its genesis in the
subjective conventions of culture” (Beckwith and Koukl 43). Cultural
anthropologist William Graham Sumner believes that morality is
culturally determined because of the following three reasons:
Each culture has a unique set of moral values.
Moral values are generated by the natural influence of pain and pleasure as
people seek to satisfy their base wants and desires. These values create a
complex system of customs.
Each group thinks its moral values are right and the others are wrong
(Quoted in Beckwith and Koukl 43).
COMPARISON WITH COMMON STANDARD MORALS
7. What is the current status of moral in what age has morals changed ? The first
is that young people construct their framework for reasoning about moral
issues through their interactions with others and these interactions are shaped
by their level of cognitive development.
Why have they changed? Morals changes with the society.
How many people live by their morals today? Everyone has a set of morals its
just to what exist, age and time they live by them since morals stay the same
for the most part they just change little by little with society.
What are the common morals people know? Everyone innately knows right from
wrong.
What is the greatest threat to our environment community and our country with
the lack of morals? Children committing crimes was found to be lack of moral
compass, rather than the opportunity to commit crime or social background,
was revealed to be the most important factor in youths breaking the law.
CONSERVATION
8. We generally presume that moral principles must apply to all
rational beings at all places and all times. Moral principles must
therefore be based on concepts of reason, as opposed to
particularities of culture or personality.
IF WE ARE TO GO FORWARD, WE MUST GO BACK AND REDISCOVER THOSE PR ECIOUS
VALUES - THAT ALL REALIT Y HINGES ON MORAL FOUNDATIONS AND THAT A LL REALIT Y
HAS SPIRITUAL CONTROL.( MARTIN L U THER K ING, JR .)
MORAL EXCELLENCE COMES ABOUT AS A RESULT OF HABIT. WE BECOME JUST BY D OING
JUST ACTS, TEMPERATE BY DOING TEMPERATE ACTS, BRAVE BY DOING BRAVE
ACTS.(ARISTOTLE)
