What is Moral

The meaning of moral has been developed by some thinkers like Hirschman, who has said that, sadly, a majority of human beings are wantons or immoral beings because they have only current economic preferences and, consequently, they lack of self-reflexive and critical view about the sense of his or her life, and in relationship with the collective aims of a desired social order. The big importance of moral choices, following the ideas of Sen, Frankfurt, Arendt and Hirschman, can be summarized in the next items: I) a person has the capacity of autonomous and self-reflexive thinking; II) the moral is part of high values: the legendary liberal J. S. Mill understood perfectly the importance of this behavior when he said: “is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied”; III) a person has second order volitions (meta-preferences, moral values, ideologies), and, consequently, she or he is a moral agent that takes care about the problems of a society, and in relationship with a desirable social order; IV) a person is a lover of freedom and, consequently has moral dignity (the capacity to disobey absurd, incorrect and perverse orders) and, moreover, has the ability to exert countervailing power.