The Metaphysics of Philosophy, Knowledge and Morality Chapter 19

Chapter 19
The nature of morality

Morality is a set of rules that tells you what's right to do under what circumstances.

Morality manifests itself in a desire to do what's right and in an emotional response to the perceived rightness or wrongness of actions, including our own.

There may be no such thing as universal right and wrong, but in our intuitive sense of morality, it certainly looks like there was. We all act as though there was universal right and wrong. We can't help it, it's in our DNA.

Example: people who consciously try to do what's right are seen as righteous. Some others disapprove of righteousness, which makes them... well, righteous. There's no escaping one form of righteousness or another. All humans respond righteously to the perceived rightness or wrongness of actions.