Understanding Moral Principles: Freedom, Action, and Obligation
The elements of moral fact are: the freedom that is central to the moral fact, and acquires moral dimension when it comes into the privacy of individuals and extends to their community. Human action is a learned activity, rational, conscious, intentionally affective, and free, whereas humans make their means, ends, circumstances, and consequences based on internal processes (biological, learned) and external (social and environmental) factors. As humans socially encounter a culture, morality becomes part of it, respecting and conforming actions to something beyond their control. Sometimes, this assumes rational reflection as their own.
In the individual-society relationship, the problem of freedom appears, as the pressure seems to socialize human freedom and can manipulate and direct the moral compass. Morality can be interpreted as a cultural product of a society.
Standards and Moral Values
The reason for being lies in the freedom of humans, with features that claim to be universal, absolute, and necessary conditions without depending on sex, race, or the individual interests of particular groups. They present humans as persons and respect the environment. They try to give meaning to their freedom and are moral when the individual consciously, rationally, objectively, emotionally, and freely assumes them as their own. The moral standard is born to be met, bearing in mind if possible. All rules have and express moral content that acts as the guiding principle of human action, giving meaning and justification. The moral standard is worth expressing moral value. The compliance requirement is different from other values and norms.
Moral norms and values guiding human action, both socially, can conflict due to several factors. Trying to solve them requires viewing the individual as free, considering possible consequences, taking responsibility for them, and trying to find alternatives, always giving priority to some over others. Coercion, if not legitimized and legalized, is another excuse. Liability studies the relationships between freedom and necessity in causal action. Moral responsibility is an indication of moral progress in individuals and groups. Also, evolving norms and values are different in other societies, in some places and others, at some times or others, for various reasons: social, historical factors, democratic, pluralistic, tolerant, speed, and globalization of information, new knowledge, and techniques.
Moral Obligation
Obligation is defined as a tie that binds the individual to something for some reason. Obligation has sociological connotations. This perspective is usually due to a fear mechanism, comfort, compliance with requirements, or the expectations others have about what you have to do. Moral obligation implies freedom in the choice of action in accordance with what is reasonable and justified. It also links human action not only to norms and values but also to habits, attitudes, and personal beliefs.
Moral norms and values guiding human action, both socially, can conflict due to several factors. Trying to solve them requires viewing the individual as free, considering possible consequences, taking responsibility for them, and trying to find alternatives, always giving priority to some over others. Coercion, if not legitimized and legalized, is another excuse. Liability studies the relationships between freedom and necessity in causal action. Moral responsibility is an indication of moral progress in individuals and groups. Also, evolving norms and values are different in other societies, in some places and others, at some times or others, for various reasons: social, historical factors, democratic, pluralistic, tolerant, speed, and globalization of information, new knowledge, and techniques.
Moral obligation is defined as a tie that binds the individual to something for some reason. Obligation has sociological connotations. This perspective is usually due to a fear mechanism, comfort, compliance with requirements, or the expectations others have about what you have to do. Moral obligation implies freedom in the choice of action in accordance with what is reasonable and justified. It also links human action not only to norms and values but also to habits, attitudes, and personal beliefs.