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Where does morality come from?

Submitted by CT on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 9:32pm.

I am still unresolved as to how morality 1) arose and 2) what relativity is involved.

This course has directed me to think of morality and society in more relative term. What is considered alright here is not considered acceptable elesewhere, and that is due in part to the conditions which helped those morals become established.

In the US, we like to discuss the issue of equality. Every human is equal. Contrasting this with Howards End, we react against the classist attitudes. We see an alternative, where people have a more equal economic footing, where people have opportunities based on skills- not to whom they were born.

We feel that people should be judged on the essence of being people, not on status. But this is a method that works for us. And while we see that it would have worked for Howards End, they couldn't. We are limited by what we are familiar with, not by what is possible,

If there is a true "reality", is there a true morality? And can we possibly see it?

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