morality

Mainly because it's 5 o'clock in the morning, and I just got done trying to sleep in an impossible position, I'm feeling fairly philosophical today. I'd like to post what I'm starting to see as the difference between morals and ethics. I freely admit to having stolen ideas from other people...

It seems like an oxymoron to me, but this seems to be the usual (only?) take from judeochristian religions. Namely: do X because you'll be rewarded if you do and punished if you don't. Not: do X because it's the right thing to do, even though you're not going to get anything out of it and...

Building a model of morality I cannot remember where I read it but is resonates for me; ‘all decisions, wherein there is a choice, are moral decisions’. One may find quibbles to get around this message but the essence of the matter is that for a person seeking to be moral, all judgments from...

This was your previous post saying that you can use skeptical thinking to show those two ideas. Skeptical thinking would provide little use unless you have reliable data to deal with. In politics and morality there is usually not reliable data so you are dealing with unreliable data and...

Just creating this thread because of on ongoing frustration with religious people and their perceived moral superiority. I have had many discussions with reasonable rational religious people that question my morality because I choose not to believe in a god. Why in the world most morality is...

I’m hoping that in splitting this topic, we can get down to the root of this discussion, as opposed to continuing the sermons that seem to have marked this topic. While some such as Delphi Ote and others, have taken the time to actually read what’s here, and try to discuss this issue...