What Are Morals?

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where does this sense of right or wrong originate from? Freud says
that moral development comes from observation of parents during the
developmental stage of childhood. From childhood, then, comes the
foundation for adulthood morality. A more detailed, yet similar, theory
proposed by Kohlbegis that a child goes through certain stages of moral
development. The first stage is very simple; the child perceives that
whatever it is rewarded for is good, and that anything that it is punished
for is bad. As the child grows older, it perceives good as being what
makes others happy, or what gives themselves praise or attention. Finally,
as maturity is reached, the individual starts to perceive the “big picture,”
and begins to understand how certain actions affect society as a whole.
Often at this stage the individual tends to develop a life philosophy.

There are many different ways of developing morality. Sometimes someone
will make an idol or an example out of another ...

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