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Immorality is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards. It refers to an agent doing or thinking something they know or believe to be wrong . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Immorality is normally applied to people or actions, or in a broader sense, it can be applied to groups or corporate bodies, and works of art.
Immorality is the active opposition to morality (i.e., opposition to that which is good or right), while amorality is variously defined as an unawareness of, indifference toward, or disbelief in any particular set of moral standards or principles.
Immorality Act was the title of two acts of the Parliament of South Africa which prohibited, amongst other things, sexual relations between white people and people of other races. The first Immorality Act, of 1927, prohibited sex outside of marriage between whites and blacks, until amended in 1950 to prohibit sex between whites and all non-whites.
"Death and Immortality" Dictionary of the History of Ideas, etext at the University of Virginia Library "Immortality" Immortality – What Will Eternal Life Be Like? The Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body Lecture by Heinrich J. Vogel; An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality by James Challis
According to the classical definition of Augustine of Hippo, sin is "a word, deed, or desire in opposition to the eternal law of God." [15] Many medieval Christian theologians both broadened and narrowed the basic concept of Good and evil until it came to have several, sometimes complex definitions [16] such as:
When presented with a specific immoral act that a specific person committed, people tend to say that that person is morally responsible for their actions, even if they were determined (that is, people also give compatibilist answers). [55] The neuroscience of free will investigates various experiments that might shed light on free will.
Amrita is composed of the negative prefix, अ a from Sanskrit meaning 'not', and mṛtyu meaning 'death' in Sanskrit, thus meaning 'not death' or 'immortal/deathless'.. The concept of an immortality drink is attested in at least two ancient Indo-European languages: Ancient Greek and Sanskrit.
Moral authority is authority premised on principles, or fundamental truths, which are independent of written, or positive laws.As such, moral authority necessitates the existence of and adherence to truth.