Socrates believed humans can live honest lives and honor and integrity is more important than wealth, fame and other attributes. This is similar to the Buddhist and Hindu beliefs, Buddhist thought people should live a moderate lifestyle and reduce desires of material things and worldly attraction. The Hindu faith also believed that people should not strive for material reward or recognition, in contrast to all three Zoroastrianism considered the material world that reflected blessings of Ahura Mazda. Both Zoroastrianism and Hindu did not call for simple life as Socrates and Buddhist; but both Buddhist and Socrates felt it was necessary to have thoughtful reflection on an individual's life. They all had their moral beliefs because they believed in life after death but it wasn't really the case for Socrates, he humans are obligated to strive for moral and personal integrity he also believed death could either have another phase or it was a long never ending sleep. -Amu-wright, Wilson.
The 3 words will be 'Morality', 'Meditation' and 'Wisdom'. The ultimate motivation of a Buddhist is to attain enlightenment; the complete understanding of the true nature of existence. To do that he/she has to journey inward into the higher level of consiousness by 'Meditation' and to reduce or avoid distracting thoughts that hinders the progress of meditation he/she has to purify the mind by doing good and avoiding evil (Morality).
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The 3 forms of practice of a Buddhist are Morality, Meditation and the Middle way, the 3 'M's. Morality deals with the purification of mind, body and speech. Meditation deals with the spiritual journey 'inward' to realise the true nature of things. Morality and Meditation are the vechicles to the Middle way, the enlightened state of mind, which is beyond the physical and mental aspects of any living being.
In a very small way, reason and emotion do have a play in justifying moral decisions. But the main factor is our conditioning from our society, religion, ethnicity, regionalism, politics, etc. A Buddhist will act based on Buddhist's morality, a Christian, Muslim Jewish, etc., based on their own morality. However, what happens if our conditioning is in conflict with our reasons. Which would we follow in making a moral decision?
Relativism is the belief that truth and morality are not absolute, but are instead based on individual perspectives or cultural beliefs. In contrast, objectivism posits that there are objective truths and moral standards that are true regardless of personal or cultural viewpoints. Relativism allows for diverse beliefs and practices, while objectivism seeks to identify universal truths.
Socrates believed in absolute truth and objective morality, seeing them as universal and unchanging concepts. In contrast, the Sophists believed that truth and morality were subjective and relative to individuals or societies, leading to the belief that these concepts could be manipulated or changed to suit personal gain or persuasion. Socrates argued for the pursuit of knowledge and virtue as essential to understanding the good and the just, while the Sophists emphasized persuasion and the ability to argue different viewpoints regardless of their truthfulness.
Natural selection has selected the morality we have today, its built In to our instibt to understand eachothers emotions, facial expressions etc, natural selection favours a species with a good morality as this increaaes the survival of offspring, the offspring will normally have the same morality and understanding of emotions and thus pass it on from generation to generation, those that weaker morality would have not been able to reproduce as succesfully as the offspring would have had less help from the others in the community if any, and woud be less likely to make it to adulthood and reproduce,
Reflective morality is the internalized version of right and wrong from the elements of our upbringing. Reflective morality can include both religious morality, customary morality, and empathy.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong has written: 'Understanding arguments' -- subject(s): Logic 'Pyrrhonian Skepticism' 'Morality without God?'
Well we don't know which morality play is 'the morality play' but usually a morality play focuses on some moral.
Jesus Christ helped feed the poor and care for the sick. He honored his father. He was not violent even against those that were violent to him.
Morality is the decision of whether things are "right", whether they cause undue harm for an insufficient purpose; values are along the same lines but involve more of a "what do I think is more important"; religion is an organised system of belief centred around faith in and obedience to a god or gods, which may or may not involve following a code of morality or values as part of everyday life, e.g. Christian commandments/beattitudes, Islamic five pillars of faith, Buddhist eightfold path.