What is morality and can it be justified?

Answer 1

In my view, morality is restrictions on individual behavior in order to ensure that collective wellbeing of the group and cooperation within it can be maximized. It is therefore justified by the fact that we need to live in a group in an interdependent manner. For any individual who can stay all alone without having any interdependence with any group (for instance if one lives all alone among the animals in a forest) need not be bound by any morality.

Answer 2

Morality is essentially the knowledge of what is right or good and wrong or evil. Hence, all things that are right are things that are moral and all things that are considered to be wrong are immoral. Moral choices, that is to say- the things we do that we consider to be good and correct are justifiable. Of course most of the time there are decisions that we do that we don't know exactly whether it is right or not, and hence we cannot fully justify it, but rather we rationalize and hope that it is justifiable.

Answer 3

An ethical person knows what's right and wrong.
A moral person knows it too but makes the right decision :)

Morality can be justified - if we had more moral people rather than ethical ones, there would be less bad things done in the world - perhaps. That's my 2 cents (probably worth less haha )

Answer 4

Morality has three principal meanings.
In its first descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong, whether by society, philosophy, religion, or individual conscience.
In its second, normative and universal, sense, morality refers to an ideal code of conduct, one which would be espoused in preference to alternatives by all rational people, under specified conditions. To deny 'morality' in this sense is a position known as moral skepticism.
In its third usage 'morality' is synonymous with ethics, the systematic philosophical study of the moral domain.

Answer 5

Morality is the capacity of Humans to judge what is right and what is wrong.
Some class of humans measure what is write and wrong from they point of view, others in they culture and others accordingly with the principle: "Don't do to others what you don't want they do to you", and this "others" can be another human, or an animal or the Nature, and those people are no-n violent , are Vegan or Vegetarian for example.

Answer 6

Morality is the core of the human. Without that sense we are mere animals. Real moral sistem is equal to justice and only way to settle relationships between humans. I think that's the answer to your question. With regards from BiH!

Answer 7

It can not be justified as it differs from place to place..n..race to race...n...Morality is just adjustment of society...Or in general if U say anything follows love is moral..

Answer 8

Morality refers to the concept of human ethics which pertains to matters of right and wrong -- also referred to as "good and evil" -- used within three contexts: individual conscience; systems of principles and judgments -- sometimes called moral values --shared within a cultural, religious ...

Answer 9

Morality is all of the above , & it should not have to be 'justified!'

Answer 10

all people recognize some moral code [that some things are right, and some things are wrong]. every time we argue over right and wrong we appeal to a higher law that we assume everyone is aware of, holds to, and isn't free to arbitrarily change. this is morality. right and wrong imply a higher standard or law, and law requires a lawgiver. because the moral law transcends humanity, this universal law requires a universal lawgiver. this, it is argued, is God.