“Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior” is the standard definition of morality. Morality can also be a body of doctrines derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it may also be specifically synonymous with a personal belief of "goodness" or "righteousness.” Objective morality is ethical doctrines not influenced by personal feelings or opinions; independent from perspective. Subjective Morality is a term used to describe ethical beliefs based on a person’s feelings and/or personal opinions. I will also include the theory of a “social contract”, promoted by European philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Moral Inquiry, a book by Ronald F.
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Many people have controversial views on, for instance, murder. The Bible states in the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt not kill.” Religious texts are vast in producing belief systems, yet there is still no hard evidence of a God/Goddess or Gods/Goddesses existing, making these guidelines suspicious. This depiction of how murder is essentially contradictory to our U.S Justice system because we have numerous branches of the permissibility of murder. First-degree murder involves elements like deliberate planning, premeditation, or malice. Second degree murder is killing another with malice - doing a harmful act without just cause or legal excuse - but without premeditation or deliberation. Involuntary manslaughter can be deemed as murder in the act of self defence therefore, murder can be justified. Subjective morals are detrimental to our society, however, because if a society was based on every individual's subjective virtues on what’s good and bad, then we surely would have a sense of anarchy such as individuals committing murder claiming it was an act of goodness based on their
Many people have controversial views on, for instance, murder. The Bible states in the Ten Commandments, “Thou shalt not kill.” Religious texts are vast in producing belief systems, yet there is still no hard evidence of a God/Goddess or Gods/Goddesses existing, making these guidelines suspicious. This depiction of how murder is essentially contradictory to our U.S Justice system because we have numerous branches of the permissibility of murder. First-degree murder involves elements like deliberate planning, premeditation, or malice. Second degree murder is killing another with malice - doing a harmful act without just cause or legal excuse - but without premeditation or deliberation. Involuntary manslaughter can be deemed as murder in the act of self defence therefore, murder can be justified. Subjective morals are detrimental to our society, however, because if a society was based on every individual's subjective virtues on what’s good and bad, then we surely would have a sense of anarchy such as individuals committing murder claiming it was an act of goodness based on their