Etiquette vs Morality - What's the difference?
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The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,
A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.
(uncountable) Recognition]] of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of [[behave, behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
* 1841 , , Heroes and Hero Worship , ch. 3:
* 1910 , , Theft: A Play In Four Acts , "Characters":
* 1911 , , Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens , ch. 16:
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(countable) A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
* 1912 , , Pygmalion , act 5:
* 1917 , . The Yukon Trail , ch. 14:
(countable) A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
* 1781 , , "Sheffield" in Lives of the Poets :
* 1994 , "Man Convicted of Murder in '92 Bludgeoning," San Jose Mercury News , 4 Nov., p. 2B:
(countable, archaic) A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
* 1824 , , St. Ronan's Well , ch. 16:
* 1882 , , "Vanitas Vanitatum" in Ballads ,
(uncountable, rare) Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
* 1953 , J. Kemp, "Review of The Claim of Morality'' by N.H.G. Robinson," ''The Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 3, no. 12, p. 278:
(countable, rare) A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
* 1954 , , "Ethics and Moral Controversy," The Philosophical Quarterly , vol. 4, no. 14, p. 11:
As nouns the difference between etiquette and morality
is that etiquette is the forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society while morality is recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.etiquette
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(en noun)Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
- Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.
Quotations
* 1885 , *: If you think we are worked by strings, / Like a Japanese marionette, / You don't understand these things / It is simply Court etiquette . * 2001 , Eric R. Wolf, Sydel Silverman, Aram A. Yengoyan, Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World , page 182 *: These then influence other groups, who recut and reshape their patterns of interpersonal etiquettes to fit those utilized by the tone-setting group.morality
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- Without morality , intellect were impossible for him; a thoroughly immoral man'' could not know anything at all! To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first ''love'' the thing, sympathize with it: that is, be ''virtuously related to it.
- Ellery Jackson Hubbard. . . . A man radiating prosperity, optimism and selfishness. Has no morality whatever. Is a conscious individualist, cold-blooded, pitiless, working only for himself, and believing in nothing but himself.
- Science and art without morality are not dangerous in the sense commonly supposed. They are not dangerous like a fire, but dangerous like a fog.
King Moves North," Time , 30 Apr.:
- It may be true that you cannot legislate morality , but behavior can be regulated.
- I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality .
- He smiled a little. "Morality is the average conduct of the average man at a given time and place. It is based on custom and expediency."
- His morality was such as naturally proceeds from loose opinions.
- Deputy District Attorney Bill Tingle called Jones "the devil's right-hand man" and said he should be punished for his "atrocious morality ."
- "She had done her duty"—"she left the matter to them that had a charge anent such things"—and "Providence would bring the mystery to light in his own fitting time"—such were the moralities with which the good dame consoled herself.
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- What mean these stale moralities ,
- Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble?
- Robinson sums up the conclusion of the first part of his book as being "that the task of the moralist is to set in their proper relation to one another the three different types of moral judgment . . . and so reveal the field of morality as a single self-coherent system".
- Hume's morality' which ‘implies some sentiment common to all mankind’; Kant's '''morality''' for all rational beings; Butler's ' morality with its presupposition of ‘uniformity of conscience’.