Morality and Ethical Issues in Contemporary Society

Introduction

Morality is a set of rules that guides how we treat others and our surroundings in some way or the other. Emotional influences on morality make us think that emotions influence our decisions, as we approach a particular way of treating others. Hence, ethics and morality have a lot of interconnections with emotional states of the minds. A virtue is a character trait desirable or admirable. Attitudes can be nice, good in themselves behaviors or actions that follow from a set of positive values. The author defines a virtue as a quality that allows human beings to implement a certain value, promote it, express it, repeat it and appreciate it. What should we tell the children about emotional control? Any emotion must be understood to control it. The teacher must insist on accountability, not control: “Being responsible means taking responsibility for something” (Haidt, p. 866).

Emotions are part of moral responsibility. Make children understand that they are the source of their feelings and are responsible for these, as well as his actions. Shame, too, can lower self-esteem or cause depression. Moral education can teach the child to be tolerant, to respect people's weaknesses and his own, rather than an excessive demand. Teach the value people have, to love them as they are. Jealousy is part of life and we must teach children to talk about them, to express that emotion and their consequences. Explain in words what the parents think the child feels when you have a brother. It is important to discuss other emotions that often accompany jealousy, like anger, envy or hatred. Educators should teach children humility and pride in perspective. Teaching is good to be proud of yourself, your achievements as well as others. Humility allows us to feel awe and wonder, recognize qualities in others. Trust is a moral virtue, a key emotion in morality (Hoffman, p. 121-155). Emotions are always associated with satisfaction or dissatisfaction of any important human needs. The emergence of emotions can also contribute to the excess unsold motivation of the subject, lack of information of any significant events for him. A person may experience a range of emotions, and due to the different circumstances associated with the conditions of his existence. For example, emotions such as anger, disgust and contempt form a unique set of emotional hostility that can develop into a feeling of hostility, aggressive underlying wrongful conduct.

Issues in Contemporary Society

Morality, defined as the fact to decide right from wrong, must be compatible with ethics as a philosophical reflection. Emotional elements combine with rational elements is not easy, but in the realm of morality and ethics is necessary because, while emotions play a fundamental role in the realization of moral judgment, rationality is the fundamental characteristic of ethics.

Ethics is the branch of science, which investigates philosophical laws of human behavior, to formulate the rules to the full extent of the evolution of man and his social and psychological being the goal that corresponds ...