What Is Moral Science?

The scope of moral science is broader than what is taught to children in primary school and has a practical significance that cannot be taught in classrooms by a teacher or read from a textbook. In fact, moral science goes beyond the basic distinction between good and bad conduct, right and wrong behaviour and the do's and don't's which are typically laid down by society and followed blindly from generation to generation without raising any questions or doubts whatsoever.

Countries that are industrially advanced and developed seem to be less conscious of their morality than those that are not fully developed or are still in various stages of development. Good values must be inculcated in children at as early a stage as possible in their childhood. It is a complex but universally recognised and accepted code of conduct that goes deeper than the surface of accepted norms for social behaviour and includes norms for appropriate behaviour at the social, religious, cultural, philosophical and psychological levels as well. A person's action is termed as moral only if it conforms to the traditions laid down by his or her society.

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