Morality (n.) is arrived at by compassionately recognizing at a more universal level and directly feeling at a concrete level that the inner nature of another person is of the same substance as oneself.
Morality (n.) is based on our ability to break through the bonds of egoism by recognizing the like sufferings of others, our fellowship in misery, before which all other differences and distinction melt away into irrelevance.
Morality (n.) is in the will, and more specifically, in the resolve that is taken by the will and not what has happened.
Morality (n.) is practical metaphysics.
Morality's (n.) origin is not in the empirical but in the metaphysical, not in the mere phenomenon, but in the thing-in-itself.
Morality's (n.) basis is compassion.
Morality (n.) is the alleviation of suffering, which is abhorrent wherever it occurs, and therefore one ought to do all one can to diminish suffering everywhere.