I am really confused about morals and values. I was hoping that someone could please tell me how they got their morals and values relating to a story.
2007-01-31 05:53:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Everybody ultimately determines their own morality. Morality is the set of rules we make for what is right and wrong. Usually, they are not fixed rules, because you need to respond to various types of circumstances. Their purpose, really, is to allow people to establish common ground for interaction. If you think about it, a hermit really has no need for morality.
We derive our morality from various sources. Mainly, it comes from our instincts. Humans are group animals, and there are certain ways we act towards others in our group and outside the group. Because we have abstract thinking ability, we have some fairly abstract groups. We also get input from our country, culture, parents, friends, and personal experience.
2007-01-31 05:58:34 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people get their morals and values through multiple means: their parents, their religion, and their life experience.
Your parents (and/or teachers, back when it was ok to do so) instilled values in you -- the idea of right and wrong. Stealing is wrong, for an example.
Your religion helped shape your morals. Adultery is wrong -- this isn't a law, it's a morality issue.
Through life experience, you may find that certain things "rub" you the wrong way. Gossiping about a friend is an example. When you've been down that path and have discovered the repurcussions (e.g. you lose a friend), you have learned that this is wrong. No one TOLD you it was wrong, per se, but you have now experienced it.
Hope that helps!
2007-01-31 14:05:50 · answer #2 · answered by tah_map 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I particularly got a lot from reading Nietzche. An individualistic moralist rather than a systematic philosopher, influenced by Schopenhauer and by his early friendship with Richard Wagner, he passionately rejected the "slave morality" of Christianity for a new, heroic morality that would affirm life. Leading this new society would be a breed of supermen whose "will to power" would set them off from the "herd" of inferior humanity. His writings, e.g., Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-91) and Beyond Good and Evil (1886), were later used as a philosophical justification for nazi doctrines of racial and national superiority; most scholars, however, regard this as a perversion of Nietzsche's thought.
2007-01-31 14:07:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess I learned mine at an early age by attending Sunday School - the 10 commandments are a great guide to morals and values, and they are fairly easy for everyone to follow!
Parents should teach morals and values to children beginning at a very early age - I hope this helps!
God bless!
2007-01-31 13:58:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately most movies are overseen by the rich elite to move a country in a certain direction. Like 'ET' getting people ready to accept ET's and TV programs depicting life after the bomb. Obviously most have little concern about instilling moral values in our society we need to choose it for ourselves.
2007-01-31 14:07:59 · answer #5 · answered by spareo1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋