One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.