Category: M
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Moral realism
Morality of constraint.
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Moral moron
A person who fails to develop adequate moral values.
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Moral majority
Those persons who possess a conservative religiously oriented view of life.
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Moral judgment
The process through which a person decides that some action is good or bad.
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Morality of cooperation
Moral thinking typical of children about 12 years and older characterized by flexible rules, mutual agreements, and allowance for intentions morality of constraint.
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Morality of constraint
Moral thinking typical of children up to about the age of 10, characterized by sacred rules, no exceptions, no allowance for intentions.
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Moral development
Stages in the development of the concepts of right and wrong.
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Moral aniety
In psychoanalytic theory, fear of punishment based in the ego for failure to adhere to the superego’s standards of proper conduct.
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Moot case
In law, a case in which the facts do not support the proposed litigation, either because of legal precedent or because the facts of the case have changed.
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Moonshining
The illegal production of distilled spirits.