Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
Without morality, intellect were impossible for him; a thoroughly immoral man could not know anything at all! To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathize with it: that is, be virtuously related to it.
A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.
A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
His morality was such as naturally proceeds from loose opinions.
From Anglo-Norman moralité, Middle French moralité, from Late Latin mōrālitās (“manner, characteristic, character”), from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”), from mōs (“manner, custom”). ...
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