Draft:Outline of morality

Differentiation between right and wrong

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to morality:

Morality (from Latin moralitas 'manner, character, proper behavior') is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper, or right, and those that are improper, or wrong. Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive from a standard that is understood to be universal. Morality may also be specifically synonymous with "goodness", "appropriateness" or "rightness".

What type of thing is morality?

Morality can be described as all of the following:

History of morality

History of morality

• Evolution of morality

General morality concepts

Place these in other sections:

• Good and evil
• Moral
• Moral agency
• Moral character
• Moral conviction
• Moral outsourcing
• Moral panic
• Moral skepticism
• Value theory

• Moral absolutism
• Apatrapya
• Appeal to advantage
• Argument from morality
• Badge of shame
• Boasting
• Castigat ridendo mores
• Moral character
• Code of conduct
• Corporate sociopolitical activism

• Deontology
• Dignity
• Moral diplomacy
• Disgust

• Moral economy
• Moral equivalence
• Moral evil
• Moral example
• Good moral character
• Graded absolutism
• Guilt (emotion)
• Moral hierarchy
• Moral high ground
• History of ethical idealism
• History of ethics
• Illegal emigration
• Moral imperative
• Intellectual opportunism
• Moral intelligence
• Laziness
• Libertine

• Master–slave morality
• Mental reservation
• Moral agency
• Moral ascendancy
• Moral authority
• Moral compass
• Moral conversion
• Moral courage
• Moral outsourcing
• Moral progress
• Moral rationalism
• Moral theology
• Moral weight
• Moralism
• Moralistic fallacy
• Mores

• Natural morality
• Nazi morality
• Moral nihilism
• Nordic sexual morality debate

• Moral panic
• Morality play
• Public morality

• Moral relativism
• The Right to Be Lazy
• Rodomontade

• Satan's Harvest Home
• Secular morality
• Self-righteousness
• Moral shock
• Moral suasion
• Moral syncretism

• Total depravity

• Victorian morality
• Morality of violence
• Virtue ethics

Moral stances

• Altruism
• Morality and religion

Science of morality

Science of morality

• Neuromorality

Moral psychology

Moral psychology

• Moral intelligence

Sociology of morality

Sociology of morality

• Art and morality

Technology and morality

• Artificial intelligence and moral enhancement

Moral philosophy

See: Ethics, and Outline of ethics

Moral philosophy (outline)

Morality organizations

Morality publications

Persons influential in morality

See also

Amorality

Amorality

Immorality

Immorality

• Cheating
• Condescension
• Contempt
• Crime

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