Inethical Essay: Does Morality Exist?

Does morality exist?

In this paper, I examine whether or not morality exists. I will look mostly on an individual basis instead of holistically. This is to attempt to break down the issue further and get to the root of the question at hand. I will also, however, look to society to answer the more complex for morality to exist or not. This will be looking at the fact/opinion ratio between morality existing or morality not existing reasoning and why one is more powerful than the other. I personally believe that morality exists, but only because it was created by man as a sort of censor to protect the world from itself. Concluding that, Morality itself exist, but on an individual versus societal basis. Meaning that society has a set of morals that everyone should follow, but individuals sometime have a different set of morals that they personally go by and those set of morals only.

First I want to define morality, to kind of set up an idea of why most would think it existed or not. Morality can be explained in two different ways. In one way it can be used to refer to some codes of conduct put forward by society or some other religious groups or accepted by an individual for his or her own behavior. Morality can also be defined normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons. Morality is used to formulate ethical theories.

By using the first definition of morality, referring to an actual existing code of conduct that society put forward, results in a denial that universal morality exists, one that would apply to all humans. Anthropologists use this definition to describe the societies that they study. There are some comparative and evolutionary ps...

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...d immoral. Anyone can imagine a world without morals, since it would mean that no one would care about anything or anyone. Morality is a concept like justice and fairness, it is not tangible. Mortality is not always based from religion. Religion is a sense that there is something out there greater than us. Empirically speaking, mortality is a part of our species instinctive makeup. We are a cooperative species and we live in groups instead of isolation and to keep down confusing morals are there as a way of regulating interactional issues. The groups that were more willing to cooperate with each other have a better chance of survival in the past. We have an incredibly large distaste for violence and also deception because those traits would work against our chances to pass on genes. Our moral intuition exists simply because it was statistically favored in the past.