Morality

I was surprised to receive a book on Ethics the other day and wondered why I was given such a gift. The book was a precious one for me as I love to read anything about ethics. Most of the authors are famous philosophers, i.e., Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hume, and many others.

Ethics include theories on morality, the nature of man, affection of humanity, reasons and passion, etc. Simply put, ethics involves learning what is right or wrong, and then doing the right thing. The first topic that catches my interest was morality. You will be surprised to note that different philosophers have different views on morality. How much more on other issues.

I have collected few insights of morality as viewed by different philosophers. An example is the views of Immanuel Kant: the ultimate principle of morality must be a moral law conceived so abstractly that it is capable of guiding us to the right action in application to every possible set of circumstances. Such is the nature of the genuine incentive of pure practical reason. It is nothing else than the pure moral law itself.

While taking doctoral classes, I paid attention to comparative education. I hope I can find a book on comparative views on morality.

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