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Morality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned mainly with the relation between two forms of motive: Immediate intention on the one hand, long-term purpose on the other . Taking medicine to lower colestoral is an immediate intention. Improving my health is the longer-term purpose. Morality is aligning immediate intentions with long-term moral purposes.

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Morality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not yet 'ethicality,' the organic unity of the good and conscience, of the universal and the individual. From the formal standpoint of morality, conscience lacks all such objective content.

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Morality (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠people away from what is toward what ought to be ethical life is simply what is, the set of meanings and practices that guide people in everyday activities whether they are aware of it or not.

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Morality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the subjective side of the reciprocal social obligations institutionalized in contracts and the economic market. It is based on the system of mutual recognition and abstract right.

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Morality (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠forever progress and never arrive, because arriving would abolish it: a task which simply remains a task.