Morality
Morality is driven by emotion. If you ever find yourself in a political or religious debate, you will find this out the hard way. But what exactly is morality? All humans have a sense of morality, with the exception of psychopaths. Morality is emotional intuition/moral emotion that drives our thinking/moral reasoning. Moral reasoning is a servant to moral emotions. If you are thinking something, the thought is probably a justification for why you are feeling some way.
Our justification is not based on how we came to our exact emotional judgment, but rather an explanation that drives the most people to agree with us; therefore, humans are socially interactive creatures. We have the capacity to relate to each other with language and reason to justify our emotional judgements. Thus, morals are well-developed emotional urges, which humans seek to justify with social feedback and lingual reasoning.
Personality
Personality is a preference that we are born with. As we grow, our personalities become more evident. Do you…
– draw your energy from being alone or with people?
– easily grasp imaginative concepts or micro sensual details?
– derive your happiness from making others happy or are you more focused on general outcomes?
– like having plans and order, or do you just go with the flow?
All these questions, based off Jung and Myers-Briggs psychology, will determine your personality. Personality is the arrangement of gears in a clock, which make the clock tick; we are the clock, and personality is what makes us tick.
The Difference
Most people tend to confuse morality with personality, but personality is innate and morals are developed. Our morals establish consistency and interconnectivity within society, but personality influences the justification for a moral.
Personality is the influencer of our decisions in the constraints of morality.
Morals can change if a social group or society wills it. Personality cannot change, but it can be developed. With both personality and morality at play, one can truly realize the uniqueness within each person.
Morality is not based on emotions. It’s based on logic. Our personality is formed by our morality not the other way around. We are taught by our parents to know what’s right and wrong, and our personality develops as an emotional response to our morality/sense of right and wrong. If I’m wrong, I’d like to discuss it in depth.
My argument is that personality is the radio frequency for our morality. We are all selective listeners, only hearing the thing that matches our personality. For instance, choosing to believe a moral that supports the exclusion of people if you’re an introvert, or morals that promote the inclusion of people if you were an extrovert. Morals are developed through the lens of the individual, AKA the personality.
Perhaps, we choose to believe something before we justify it with logic, that we try to justify our emotional inclinations, AKA morals. Maybe we mimic the emotional inclinations of our parents, being that we are emotional as children then logical as adults. Personality is innate from birth, and we justify our morals, which are developed through life, with our static personality. Personality is neither emotional or logical, its just the framework of our biology, like preferences – i.e. people-pleaser vs outcome oriented, bubbly vs introspective, orderly vs hate for rigidity. Morals are built on top of personality. I guess the real question is: what comes first, personality or morality?
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