morality is just contextual

7/31/2019 Morality is Just Contextual

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Is morality a product of geneticdeterminism or cultural indoctrinationor religiously enforced codes ofconduct, or socially accepted modes ocontract or ethically enforced nodes ofcontact or toeing the traditionally laidroads of behavior . what it is? Couldmorality be relativized, democratizedand trivialized against the sociallyallowed and approved consensus?


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There are too many types of morals, broadly classified may be as religious, theological, socultural, national etc. Primarily and predominantly morality has been an obsession of religio

politics and cultures as all these three needed human beings to be controlled though herdisinstincts and instructions. Most moral values are perceived values and are highly arbitrary. Th

why there were moral values even in slave-holding ancient Rome or of a cannibal Melanesisociety 200 years ago. Friedrich Nietzche nailed it correctly when he declared that Moralitis

herd instinct in the individual.


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As most of the concepts ofmorality were laid down byreligion, politics and culture,

logic and scientific truths were overlooked by


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Morality became so much sex-oriented that it lost all otherdimensions-which are far more important. Sex should not really bso much of a concern for moral thinking Osho


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Without civic morality communities peris without personal morality their survivalhas no value.

(1872 - 1970)


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"Morality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of

behavior imposed by an external authority. It israther a healthy habit pattern that you haveconsciously and voluntarily chosen to impose uponyourself because you recognize its superiority toyour present behavior."


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In Vedic times importance was given rather tohuman beings ultimate goal of spiritual

realization and there were many prompts for appropriate behavior at various stages in this

process and there were codes of preferable cond

for anyone who wanted to attain that in the various institutions through which a persons lihad to meander through like his duties to familand in family, in society, to his masters, toward

his elders etc


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Vedic Hinduism had certain moral principles .10 Yamas(Vedic restraints )

Ahimsa[non-injury],

Satya[truthfulness]

Asteya[nonstealing]

Brahmacharya (divine conduct),

(patience),

( steadfastedness),

Mitahara[moderateappetite]and

Saucha(purity).

10 Niyamas (Vedic practices).

hri[remorse],

santosha[contentment]

dana[giving] ,

astikya[faith],

ishwara-pujana[worship] ,

[scriptutal listening] ,

mati[cognition],

vrata[sacred vows],

japa[recitation]

and tapas[austerity]


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Mother Mira AlfassaMorality is the shield that men flourish to

protect themselves from the Truth. Moral lawshave only a very relative value from the point of view of Truth. Besides, they vary considerably according to country, climate and period. What is moral in one country is immoral in another.

Morality is not divine or of the Divine; it is of man and human. Morality takes for its basicelement a fixed division into the good and thebad; but this is an arbitrary notion. It takesthings that are relative and tries to impose themas absolutes;


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