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Morals

The Importance of Morals
The question of whether or not a choice is morally right or wrong varies a great deal from person to person. The first step in determining a moral choice from an immoral one is to know the definition of the word moral, which is “of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action”. The judgment of a human’s action determines the morality of that action. Judgment is “the capacity to make reasonable decisions”, and reason is “the basis or motive for an action”. Knowing this, a better definition of the word moral might be the capacity to make a decision based on the goodness of one’s motives. Therefore, a choice is based on a person’s motives, so whether the motives are good or bad determines the morality of the choices.
In Antigone, Antigone’s motivations for the choice she made were to obey the laws of the gods and to value her family, which resulted in her making a moral decision; one based on positive motives...

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