morality

deontology

Immanuel Kant

consequences

practical reason

categorical imperative

ethics

philosophy

ology (the study of)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

atheism

beyond good and evil

morals

action

behavior

electricity

one-liner

nonsense question

Friedrich Nietzsche

Baruch Spinoza

being good

definition

Santa Claus

permissive society

Kit Kat

Bible

genocide

incest

nudity

book banning

integrity

pants

night owl

waking up early

staying up late

is not needed (as reported in 1900) since the Japanese have only to act according to the dictates of their hearts to do well.

It was,' says he, ' invented by the Chinese, because they are a very immoral people ... but in Japan morality is not needed, since the Japanese have only to act according to the dictates of their hearts to do well. To obey the Emperor, who is the . . .

Japan

is a thing apart, quite dissociated from religion (as reported in 1906). It is the first item in the educational code.

missionary Munzinger says : ' In Japan morality is a thing apart, quite dissociated from religion.' This morality is the first item in their educational code.

is (as reported in 1973) related to systems of obligation to family and social hierarchy, and not to God and a system of abstract principles.

Religion has never played such a central role in Japan... morality is related to systems of obligation to family and social hierarchy, and not to God and a system of abstract principles. People seem to consider theology a personal proclivity rather . . .

is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. Karl Kraus

is a comfortable stance in that it represents a lapse from the austere dialectic of capitalism (catastrophe and progress together).

The lapse from this austere dialectical imperative into the more comfortable stance of the taking of moral positions is inveterate and all too human: still, the urgency of the subject demands that we make at least some effort to think the cultural evolution of late capitalism dialectically, as catastrophe and progress all together' (Jameson 1984:86)

is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs.

a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

is a matter of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. The Guardian (UK, 1989-07-28)

is a normative system of self-abasing, self-loathing, humility, that since the greeks has served the weak life-deniers. Morality is not some metaphysical human prerogative but forms out of an animal fear and the quest for power (it forms in custom which belongs also to animals).

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