The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.