#social morality

[unknownpersonality]

Our social morality is just a facade that everyone feels constricted to follow

[indizombie]

...history teaches us that notions of justice, dignity and equality are central to human progress. The entire moral edifice of a society collapses if it does not confront the question of inequality (and of human indignity) of hundreds of thousands of humans and livestock in desperate search for irrigation and drinking water, while a handful enjoy the opulence of private swimming pools just a few hundred kilometres away from the drought; or when hunger claims 11-year-old Santoshi in 2017 and 58-year-old Savitri Devi in 2018 in Jharkhand, while we read media reports about how surplus grain is often eaten by rats. We must stand up to one of the biggest challenges of our times and respond decisively.

Amitabh Behar, 'Inequality is the moral challenge of our times. Stop evading it', Times of India

[azura-fox]

Social Morality by C.S. Lewis Doodle ( BBC Talk 12, Mere Christianity, BK 3, Chapter 3)

[fabien-euskadi]

Social morality is based on pleasure and therefore it is no morality at all: social morality is immorality. One finds that out; but it does not mean that by revolting against the social morality, one is going to become moral - doing what one likes, sleeping with whom one likes. If one is going to understand and be free of fear, one should also understand pleasure; they are interrelated.

Jiddu Krishnamurti  in “The Impossible Question”

[discourseoflove]

"I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him."

— C. S. Lewis, "Social Morality," Mere Christianity

[discourseoflove]

"A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him. And so, as I warned you, we are driven on to something more inward—driven on from social matters to religious matters. For the longest way round is the shortest way home."

— C. S. Lewis, "Social Morality," Mere Christianity

[lyalljbcw027-blog]

Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality

Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality In many areas of modern life rapid developments in science are overwhelming established norms. Brain biology, through DNA testing and advanced brain imaging techniques, has given medical scientists new insights into the functioning of the human mind. This erosion of long-standing beliefs has many implications for understanding and treating what society considers to be aberrant or immoral behavior. What medical science is indicating is that the focus of our emphasis on mental processes--particularly free will and intentionality--is shifting to recognition of the important role the physical brain plays on human thought and behavior. In Hardwired Behavior the author argues that social morality begins in the brain, for without the brain there would be no concept of morality. Individual responsibility, therefore, must be reconsidered in the light of biological brain processes. The question of whether new scientific findings destroy the relevance of free will, placing it in the context of biological forces that may operate outside the conscious control of the actor, is one of intense debate. Hardwired Behavior takes this question and moves it into the open by clearly detailing neuroscience discoveries and explaining how the ancient precepts of "morality" that have guided mankind throughout its history must now be seen through the new lens of brain biology. Tαкё асtíon immed¡αtеlу!!t_ Dοn0t waìt аnу m0rё.