Morality
* arises from the social sense of shame.
* belongs to the sum total of human volitions, but more especially to our free acts.
* biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth.
* can have many meanings
  - mean conformity to local norms or loyalty to private conscience
* concept rife with hypocrisy.
* consists in bringing together values and human nature and the nature of the social world.
* cultural construct.
* development of societies.
* exists as a matter of choice
  - in both religions despite their different beliefs on creation
* function of living human society.
* gives rise to concentration
  - way to mortality
* grand issue upon which lives are built and destroyed.
* guides individuals through life and through all the relationships of society.
* human creation, invented by society, for human purposes alone.
* human, social concept.
* includes truth, ahimta and continence.
* involves acting with the pure intention of performing one's duty.
* is about choosing right action
  - what is right and wrong
  - also a measure of our beliefs over right and wrong at the most core level
  - an ideology
  - another word for living a good, full, decent life according to right choices
  - as important a craving for humans as violence itself is
  - at the level of voluntary exchange
  - civilization's first line of defense
* is concerned with right doing and wrong doing
  - the prevention of suffering
  - conditioned by genes
  - considered a personal and private matter
* is defined by personal opinions
  - differently by many people
  - determined by a vote of the people
  - different for different people
  - important in all areas of society
  - marked by necessity and strict universality
  - motivated by the avoidance of punishment and the attainment of rewards
  - necessary for a society to exist
  - only one generally effective means of promoting the end of maximizing happiness
  - part of nature itself
  - purity in action
* is relative to a certain time and a certain place
  - form of life
  - human things like happiness, health, peace, beauty, love, joy, and justice
  - relative, based on individual and particular circumstances
  - rooted in human choice
  - seen as responsibility to others rather than rights of individuals
  - simply the avoidance of unnecessary harm
  - subjective, they say, dependent upon each individual's perception
  - supposed to be moral
  - taught to be subjective and without foundation
  - that which sustains life
* is the battlefield where the war is being waged and decided
  - code that actually makes society work
  - common denominator of all religions
  - conduct of life
  - customs and habits of a given culture at a given time
  - harmony between act and circumstance
  - herd-instinct in the individual
  - more general term and applies to society at large
  - out growth of human societies
  - outcome of living for what is best for the situation, moment after moment
  - participation of the individual in the life of the universe
  - practice of what people do and believe
  - providence of humans, deciding for themselves what is right and wrong
  - quality of being virtuous or righteous
  - thing that prevents murder
  - weakness of the brain
  - understood in terms of the preservation of valuable human relations
* is what is good
  - the community consensus decides is morality
* lies in the natural law.
* matter of customs or opinions or habits or emotions
  - desire instead of truth
* means choosing what is good and right over that which is evil.
* means, among other things, accepting that there are categorical, absolute norms.
* occurs in situations of choice-always as a matter of choice.
* presumes the existence of rational persons.
* private and costly luxury.
* refers to rules of conduct that are exercised by a given society
  - standards incorporated into a person's own value system
* seems to play some important role in how successful the outcome of the diet is.
* set of principles that characterize behavior as right or wrong good or bad
  - widely shared values that revolve specifically around ethics
* stepping stone to meditation which leads to wisdom.
* subjective judgement
  - matter and depends upon strength, power and status
* system of enacted values.
* test of our conformity rather than our integrity.