Morality Essay Examples

Immanuel Kant once said “Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness”. I think morality expresses a structure of behavior in regards to ethics of right or wrong behavior. This goes hand and hand in with ethics, ideologies, virtue and goodness. Morality…

Morality plays were common in the 15th and 16th century in Europe, but what defines something as a morality play? According to Encyclopedia Britannica, a morality play is “an allegorical drama in which the characters personify moral qualities (such as charity or vice) or abstractions (as death or youth) and in which moral lessons are…

“Why would it be morally permissible to give the medicine to the five patients in the drug case, but not morally permissible to perform the operation on the man in order to save five patients in the transplant case?” Moral philosophy plays a role in defining who we are and our beliefs. It is a…

After reading the arguments for and against moral relativism, it seems to me there is no clear-cut answer for morality to be objective or relative. Even if most moral standard values differ from culture to culture, there is still a room for objective morality to consider as right or wrong. I think some moral values…

Moral Dilemmas I disagree that we should always be moral. We assume that moral perceptions can be combined into a system we should follow. As ideal as it sounds, it is not the morality that holds our deepest values. It is human beings who created morality. Times when morality fails on us, are situations where…

Christian families across the world are raising their children on the “rules”, or the Ten Commandments of the Christian faith. They are taught in order to be a part of the Catholic faith they were to follow these rules, and if they did not follow them then they were being sinful, and must repent. But…

In order for morality to be objective, it must be rooted in a form of metaphysical transcendence. In this essay, I will not be making the case for what that transcendence may be, as that is an entirely different conversation. Rather, I will be making the case that morality cannot be objective if there is…

Law and morality establish basic principles or rules about what they believe is right and wrong. Law and morality, however, vary in other ways. Laws are rules which the government empowers society to obey. Whereas morals are beliefs and behaviors which enable one to differentiate between good and bad. This can create conflict between the…

Interpreting Nietzsche’s words regarding his criticism can be challenging. In order to better understand each term, slave mortality versus master mortality, it’s helpful to break them down into the two separate moralities that they are. If we were to look at master morality, we can realize that the key word in the term is master,…

Both Plato’s Republic and Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals focus on morality; what are good and evil, right and wrong, justice and injustice. They each criticize the moralities of their respective societies, and propose an alternative in their works. The two philosophers have very different methodologies, and different ideas about what is moral,…