morality

moraali

moraalisuus puhekieltä recognition 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 behave behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
1841, w:Thomas Carlyle|Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, ch. 3:

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.

Ellery Jackson Hubbard. . . . A man radiating prosperity, optimism and selfishness. Has no morality whatever. Is a conscious individualist, cold-blooded, pitiless, working only for himself, and believing in nothing but himself.

Science and art without morality are not dangerous in the sense commonly supposed. They are not dangerous like a fire, but dangerous like a fog.

It may be true that you cannot legislate morality, but behavior can be regulated.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality.

He smiled a little. "Morality is the average conduct of the average man at a given time and place. It is based on custom and expediency."

His morality was such as naturally proceeds from loose opinions.

Deputy District Attorney Bill Tingle called Jones "the devil's right-hand man" and said he should be punished for his "atrocious morality."

"She had done her duty"—"she left the matter to them that had a charge anent such things"—and "Providence would bring the mystery to light in his own fitting time"—such were the moralities with which the good dame consoled herself.

What mean these stale moralities,

Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble?

Robinson sums up the conclusion of the first part of his book as being "that the task of the moralist is to set in their proper relation to one another the three different types of moral judgment . . . and so reveal the field of morality as a single self-coherent system".

Hume's morality which ‘implies some sentiment common to all mankind’; Kant's morality for all rational beings; Butler's morality with its presupposition of ‘uniformity of conscience’.