How Do Morals Differ From Values in Society and Personal Life?

[shadowman]

i am by no means a scientist. There are a lot of things i do not know. However, I do know about morality and values. Even though I am a christian, I will leave my beliefs out of this discussion. Morals are nothing but actions and beliefs held by a group of people and are scrutanized by society. the defference in morals is determined by the defference in societies. And by societies I am not talking about countries, a society could be a religious group, a cult, a nation or just a group of people.
Values do not differ that much from morals. However they are more personal. They deal less with the society, and more with the individual. More than just a belief, values can be personal goals and things that are very important to you. Values can even mean more to you than morals, and sometimes they can even contradict each other.


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[Tigers2B1]

...Values do not differ that much from morals. However they are more personal. They deal less with the society, and more with the individual. More than just a belief, values can be personal goals and things that are very important to you. Values can even mean more to you than morals, and sometimes they can even contradict each other.


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Well, without agreeing that "values do not differ that much ffrom morals" - I do agree that "they are more personal." For example, I "value" my life over your life – even though I can’t "morally" justify that position. Also I "value" small towns over big cities - which doesn’t lead me to any "moral" issue. NOW ----- I’m sure there are some technical definitions floating out there that might describe the terms "value" and "moral" differently – and I’m willing to use the meanings that the crowd I’m talking with uses. But that’s how I distinguish the terms - now. I think that a relativist tends to rely heavily on the word "value" when thinking about relationships / interactions - making "morals" relative in a way similar to the way that I see "values."

 

[Nicomachus]

huh? Morality is about value based decision making. As well, contextualism is true but I don't know what "more personal" means, but I suppose you are trying to refer to contextualism, I would hope so anyway.\
*Nico