What is Morality? Narrow and Broad Definition.

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    • Subject Terms:
      ETHICAL decision making; MORAL foundations theory; ETHICS; BEHAVIORAL ethics; CONFLICT of interests; EMPATHY; MORAL disengagement; FAIRNESS; MINDFULNESS
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      What is Morality? So, Dahl draws the line by introducing a technical, psychological, empirical, and distinctive definition of morality, according to which morality is "obligatory concerns with others' welfare, rights, fairness, and justice, as well as the reasoning, judgment, emotions, and actions that spring from those concerns" (Dahl, this issue, p. 54). Decades of studies in moral psychology (Doris, [19]; Ellemers et al., [20]; Gray & Graham, [28]; Greene, [31]; Prinz & Nichols, [60]; Sinnott-Armstrong & Miller, [65]), yet we have made little progress in consensus on what morality is (Dahl, this issue; Malle, [46]). So, a broader definition of morality includes all the shades of humans' and animals' reactions to the moral domain: "Morality is what a person or animal does, thinks, or feels regarding the moral domain. [Extracted from the article]
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