Definition of Moral. Meaning of Moral. Synonyms of Moral

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Definition of Moral

Moral
Moral Mor"al, v. i. To moralize. [Obs.] --Shak.
Moral
Moral Mor"al, n. 1. The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural. Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them. --South. 2. The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim. Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself. --Shak. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. --Johnson. We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters. --Macaulay. 3. A morality play. See Morality, 5.

Meaning of Moral from wikipedia

- A moral (from Latin morālis) is a message that is conve**** or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader...
- Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior"....
- "goodness" or "rightness". Moral philosophy includes meta-ethics, which studies abstract issues such as moral ontology and moral epistemology, and normative...
- Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development constitute an adaptation of a psychological theory originally conceived by the Swiss psychologist Jean...
- Moral objectivism may refer to: Moral realism, the meta-ethical position that ethical sentences express factual propositions that refer to objective features...
- Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several philosophical positions...
- Moral Orel is an American adult stop-motion animated black comedy drama series created by Dino Stamatopoulos which originally aired on Cartoon Network's...
- A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear, often an irrational one, that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being...
- In economics, a moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full...
- Moral agency is an individual's ability to make moral choices based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions. A...