Foreward To This Edition
Observation: Without a human learning what moral values are, they will have no opportunity to practice those teachings? If they never learn the definition of good or bad moral behaviour, they will simply emulate each other’s behaviour, classify it as normal and consider what they do as right. This generated mindset normalizes the participant’s mentality and thus all participants accept this behaviour as a form of tolerant morality.
Problem: Humanity in general has a very limited, misguided or null definition of what morals are.
Definition of morals: "A person’s standard of behaviour or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do"
Definition of morality: a particular system of values and principles of conduct1
Definition of moral:
Adjective
Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour.
Concerned with or derived from the code of behaviour that is considered right or acceptable in a particular society.
[attributive] Examining the nature of ethics and the foundations of good and bad character and conduct.
Holding or manifesting high principles for proper conduct.
Noun
A lesson that can be derived from a story or experience.
(Morals) Standards of behaviour; principles of right and wrong.2
Definition of moral:
Adjective
Concerned with right & wrong conduct or duty to one's neighbour, capable of the notion of duty, practising virtue, conforming to or required or justified by conscience if not law, virtually or practically or in effect though not formally so-&-so, (moral philosophy or moral science, ethics; moral sense, faculty that distinguishes between right & wrong; moral courage, courage to do the right unmoved by odium(hate) or ridicule; moral law, standard of conduct respected by good men independently of positive law & religion; moral victory, defeat or failure that cheers, not crushes, the loser; moral certainty, probability that can hardly fail)
Noun
The guidance deducible from a fable, incident, etc. Plural: habits or conduct from moral point of view;
If humanity is not educated on morals, or, what right and wrong actually is - they will learn to have a tolerance to everything. However a tolerance to everything equates to an ignorance of good morals by definition. Humanity cannot live morally being neutral to everything. Full neutrality breeds moral decay.3
Definition of tolerance:
NOUN
1 The ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with.
Definition of ignorant:
1. Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.
1.1 [predicative] Lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about a particular thing.4
If we first educate ourselves by critically defining good and bad moral attributes, we can thus distinguish and identify what good and bad moral attributes are.
When we identify these attributes we can attain a moral compass, or, a deduced guidance towards improving our own humanity, and a model for a successful society.
After reading this book and identifying, defining and choosing to implement these attributes, we can ourselves analyze whether using this newly gathered moral compass has positive or negative impacts within our own environments and humanity in general.
