Morality And Its Effect On Society

John, also known as John the Savage, is the son of Linda and his father, who are both members of Utopia. He was born and raised on the Savage Reservation. John is an outsider both on the Reservation - where the natives still practise marriage, natural birth, family life and religion - and the apparently civilised Brave New World: a totalitarian welfare-state based on principles of stability and happiness, even if it`s a happiness of a superficial and bland nature.

James Rachels' article, "Morality is Not Relative," is incorrect, he provides arguments that cannot logically be applied or have no bearing on the statement of contention. His argument, seems to favor some of the ideas set forth in cultural relativism, but he has issues with other parts that make cultural relativism what it is.

2. Morality is not static because morals refer to personal believes of right and wrong, as well as what one ought and ought not to do. Due to morality having a more personal connotation to it, it would be require not to be static. Each person deals with their own set of challenges and challenges change and adapt over time. Since challenges and individuals change over time, one might have to think that a person’s concept of morality would have to be just as dynamic in order to still complete its function.

Many Nations Under God “Morality” is a controversial thing. It is commonly thought of as the difference between right and wrong. Typically, moral actions were defined by religious beliefs and included positive guidelines following the same anti-violence, love not hate trends. Morality is constantly changing by society, by an individual, and over time. This change explains why it seems that morality has been lost.

The bravest of people are those who follow their conscience. John’s character in Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World is one prime example of an individual that uses his idea of morality to influence his decisions and in doing so stray away from the unethical society described in the novel. This statement can be true in the real world today as well as often times those who stand up for what they believe in are shunned or challenged. In the novel, John the Savage constantly challenges immoral actions from the time he enters dystopian London through the conclusion of the story.

The aspiration of any government is to control the people they govern in an effort to make their territory run smoothly. This notion is nothing new. The problem arises, however, when the methods of said control question morality. Brave New World tells the tale of Bernard, an Alpha-Plus Psychologist, who is unusual because he enjoys spending times alone and believes there is something bigger in life than sex and soma. He meets a young, popular girl named Lenina, and their contradicting values bring about bickering and a less than satisfactory relationship.

Throughout time, man has feared the rise of women's power, and has taken great measures to avoid it. Whether it be not allowing them to vote, suppressing their calls for jobs, or even devaluing the significance of women in many religious groups. In literature we witness the same fear, reading between the lines at how the author created a character and the reaction of the public to her. The woman, in Sophocles' Antigone, is considered powerful but noble, and is met with fierce opposition from men in power, and even fellow women who feel she has fallen from her rightful place. It is difficult, however, to determine who is right and who is wrong, when it is all said and done.

On his many adventures, Huckleberry Finn encounters numerous situations in which his morality is tested or needs to be implemented. Huck has moral dilemmas to a degree, but he figures out the answer to his questions. He also figures out that sometimes, society has it all wrong, and that at times you just have to follow your heart. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Twain reveals that what is honorable is to follow your natural moral instincts, not what society and civilization say is moral.

Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morality” includes his theory on man’s development of “bad conscience.” Nietzsche believes that when transitioning from a free-roaming individual to a member of a community, man had to suppress his “will to power,” his natural “instinct of freedom”(59). The governing community threatened its members with punishment for violation of its laws, its “morality of customs,” thereby creating a uniform and predictable man (36). With fear of punishment curtailing his behavior, man was no longer allowed the freedom to indulge his every instinct. He turned his aggressive focus inward, became ashamed of his natural animal instincts, judged himself as inherently evil, and developed a bad conscience (46).

The link between morality and human nature has been a progressive reoccurring theme since ancient times (Prinz, 2008). Moral development is a characteristic of a person’s general development that transpires over the course of a lifetime. Moral development is derived by a wide variety of cultural and demographic factors that appear to influence morally relevant actions. Turiel (2006) defined morality as an individuals “prescriptive judgments of justice, rights, and welfare pertaining to how people ought to relate to each other.” Individuals’ moral judgments are frequently considered to be a product of culturally specific controls that provide a framework for behavioral motivations that are sensitive to the effects of gender, education, religion and politics (Banerjee, Huebner & Hauser, 2010). While several approaches have been utilized to examine the interaction of multivariate contributors to fundamental moral differences such as: disputes about family life, sexuality, social fairness, and so on, research has suggested that ideological considerations have provided a potent and diverse explanation for the polarization of contrasting views (Weber & Federico, 2013).

     Socrates engages in conversations with people claiming to be experts, usual in ethical matters. By asking simple questions, Socrates gradually reveals that these people were in fact very confused and did not actually know anything about the matters about which they claimed to be an expert. Morality is the ethical matter that is brought up in Plato’s Republic. Socrates argues the response of Cephalus, Polemarchus and Thrasymachus on what morality is.

How can environmental and familial factors influence moral development during middle childhood? Support your answer with information from the readings. Social development. The influence of social support for children provides them with more of an advanced development in their ability and communication skills. Through family, peers, and the community in which a child lives in can further increase a child’s competence. If a child lacks social support this can affect their self - achievement in a negative way and lessen their social skills. Parental influence play an important role in social development. As a child interacts with others or learns how to play sport giving a child feedback and praise can improve moral development.

“America’s… moral compass seems to no longer to have a true north. The needle pins crazily, looking for a direction on which to settle, a direction that can lead a nation on a path of integrity and morality.”- Dr. David Jeremiah. We are all looking for a direction to settle but sometimes our needle can go the wrong way. There are certain times where we will need to be unethical and immoral. Therefore, since many people cannot control what situation they’re in and because no one is perfect; i think it’s okay to be unethical and/or immoral.

Morality only exists if we believe in God; therefore if God doesn’t exist there is no morality. There have been so many evil acts committed in the name of God that it is difficult to maintain that a belief in God equates to morality. There are situations that happen every day where decisions are made based off of human rights that contradict the word of God. Morality comes from within, it is an understanding of right versus wrong and the ability to choose what is right. Knowing all this a belief in God is not a requirement for a person to be moral. (Mosser, 2011)

government to make us believe that we were the good side while they were the bad