Morality

Morality is the concept of doing the right thing. Morals are basic guidelines for living. It is about conventions or rules, that help peole iin a society. It tries to classify actions and intentions into two groups. When they are followed

• Some of them are good / true
• Others are wrong / false

Cicero introduced the term, he wrote philosphia moralis. He used it to translate Ancient Greek Ethike (which is ethics, in English)

At the start, morality was used to describe how poeople act in practice. Sometimes it was also used to decribe the actions that are expected in certain situations.