Draft:Outline of morality

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

Morality is a phenomenon among social animals, including humans, through which communities and individuals evaluate actions, character, and social arrangements. It often refers to a set of standards, doctrines, or systems of conduct that evaluate actions and character traits using criteria that vary across individuals, societies, social classes, public opinion, religions, cultures, customs, and traditions. These evaluations often include rightness or wrongness, virtues or vices, honesty or cruelty, honor or disgrace, filial piety, community harmony, purity, reciprocity, shame, the influence of a person's inner beliefs, and propriety or impropriety of relationships between oneself and others. Morality involves evaluative judgments about agents and actions and assessments of actions as moral or immoral behavior.

What type of thing is morality?

Morality can be described as all of the following:

• Social concept

• • Ethics concept

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)

See also

Amorality

Amorality

Immorality

Immorality

• Cheating
• Condescension
• Contempt
• Crime