Understanding Morality, Freedom, and Character
Morality is not a science but a dimension of individuals and society. It’s an area where character is forged, from which to devise and plan their own lives. To be moral is to be prepared to respond to the needs of people and the challenges that lie ahead. According to Ortega y Gasset, a good person has high morale and is not demoralized, although a person can be animated but immoral and not make the cut.
Freedom and choice are not exact. Imagine any decision before a world of possibilities (imagination). How determined are we not to give the first response? We can say we are free when we create a world of possibilities and choose what we consider improved, because we are doing what we want.
Character is the first nature, and from it, we can create a second, which is the character. The character comes from that spirit. Aristotle said that life is to acquire moral values, virtues, attitudes, and norms.
Talent, in the fundamental sense of existence, is the tone in which a person faces reality. This is not what we chose; we have inherited it.
Virtues are a predisposition to do right through practice. This is away from vices, and to achieve the moral life, one must acquire habits that will lead us to good. This has to excel in every person (Greece). Popular force for good (Middle Ages).
Attitudes are learned and fixed predispositions that guide our conduct in situations, consisting of feelings, intelligence, and reason. They have cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. People act according to these predispositions we have acquired.
Qualities of persons: Values are qualities that we find attractive (beauty, respect, etc.). The positive appeals to us, while the negative repels us. It is very important to know the person and how emotional they are. It has one component (move sense), intellectual (reasonable), and experiential (incorporate into their lives) aspects that are aesthetic, economic, life (health), and religious (sacred).
Morals can be incorporated into your life with effort. Not beauty, sincerity, loyalty, etc., but yes. Personal persons or actions of persons to be elected, only people can possess. Universal all people should appreciate (solidarity, justice, equality) is trying to do in his life best.
Standards suggest an order or a mandate. Important for coexistence, let us assume as the act of +. There are legal, religious, social, and moral standards. Their difference is not content but the way they rule: the person who goes to the person to respond but meets that standard, the punishment of spera who can obey the rule.
Diversity of theories: Aristotelian and hedonistic. In Greece, S. IV BC, morality is the pursuit of happiness. S.XVIII. Persons Kantina and final dialogue we want to be happy, but that is not the true problem but whether there is other beings q hay q to recognize dignity.
Ethical and Religious Theories: Religions guide our lives and offer us a transcendent entity for our existence. Many ethical theories are related to religion, and religion has come to adopt ethical content for themselves, but in other cases, religion has given contributions to ethics. Happiness is attained in the Buddhist state of nirvana (soul to a release from desire) is achieved through meditation on reincarnations. Christian Thought affair with God and neighbor and ends up being unhappy egosita.