I have done a survey of 'definition of Morality' within Google [10 pages of search results] and there is none!
The followings are what I found;
Dictionaries
- There are loads of variation on the definition of what is morality.
e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morality
There is only one [??] book and a few articles which is specific on 'Definition of Morality', e.g.
Articles:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
Definition of Morality - David Wong
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... inition_of
He presented definitions and concept of morality from various philosophers.
and definition from many other articles from blogs, etc.
- The definition of morality
Gerald Wallace, Arthur David McKinnon Walker
https://www.amazon.com/Definition-Moral ... 0416151108
However note a review and comment on the book.
Review: Unfortunately, the literature does not offer a clear and succinct "definition" of morality. These writers work around the problem, but never conclude with anything like, "and thus, the definition of "morality" is...." So to that extent the title is misleading, but the book offers a good collection of readings nonetheless.
The Point is:
My point and question;It is common to hear discussions of whether an action is moral, as if “moral” was a word with a specific agreed upon meaning. Unfortunately, the word has so many meanings that its interpretation is extremely difficult without extra information. For example, if I say “murder is immoral”, I could actually mean any of the following:Unfortunately, even dictionaries cannot clarify for us what the word “moral” means.
- 1. Murder violates an abstract principle that I would like all people to live by.
2. The Bible (or some other religious text) forbids murder.
3. As a result of evolution and natural selection most people have an innate emotional aversion towards murder.
4. Murder is against the law.
5. Murder is labeled as being “immoral” by most people in my society.
6. Murder usually reduces the total net happiness of society.
7. The idea of murder provokes in me an emotional state that I associate with “wrongness”.
8. Nearly all religions urge us not to murder.
9. Nearly all societies have laws that punish murderers or have customs that ostracize them.
10. Most people would feel a sense of guilt if they committed murder.
A great many well respected philosophers begin by assuming that morality is a single, well defined thing (without actually defining it) and then spend their time arguing about what properties it must have. But if we haven’t defined morality, how can we derive it’s properties?
If we cannot define what exactly we are discussing, how can we even be sure that we are really discussing a single entity at all?
[also how sure that your definition is definitive in alignment with the true referent]
As the list above shows, there are many very different things that we might reasonably call “morality”, including our genetic moral intuitions created by natural selection, the societal rules that are deeply ingrained in us, religious laws, and certain abstract concepts about how to treat each other.
I am not arguing here that morality is meaningless, nor am I arguing that morality has no well defined definition to individual people or even to specific groups of people. Utilitarians, for example, can talk about morality with each other with little confusion, since they are working with a common definition.
My argument, simply stated, is that the word “morality” means many different things to different people, and that discussions about what is moral often rely on the false assumption that all parties involved can understand each other’s words.
https://www.clockbackward.com/2009/07/2 ... -morality/
Since there is so much variations in the definition of 'what is morality',
my question to the Moral Facts Deniers [Peter, Sculptor, Flasher, and gang] is,
on what grounds do you justify your idea and definition of what is morality is the definitive one?
and Views?? [any one]