Custom is not a good gauge of morality; people need to remember that based on the moral value there are good custom and bad custom.
2.4 morality and civil law
Civil law is the other source of moral values. It has long been recognized in the common law that society expects each member not only to abstain from
maliciously injuring another’s person, property, and reputation, by aggressive action or by breach of contract, but also to exercise due care in the fulfillment of his
obligations to other people. Cabot in his book The Meaning of Right and Wrong 1934 explains about the function of law for human life. Cabot 1934:255 states
most laws exist, 1 to secure our repose and safety, 2 to protect life, property and reputation, 3 to prevent perjury and fraud. In common, the function of law is to
make our life better. This view help the writer to understand more about moral judgment from
goverment law. Morality in this case is about to obey or disobey the law in the civil law.
2.5 morality and Religion
Religion is another source of moral values. Most religions have built-in lists of something to do and something cannot do, which are allowed and disallowed to
do, a set of codes by which its adherents or followers should live. Individuals who are followers of a particular religion will generally make a show of following that
religion’s behavioral code. It is interesting to note that these codes may widely vary; such as a person whose religion provides for polygamy will experience no guilt at
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having more than one spouse while adherents to other religions feel they must remain monogamous.
Each religion has their own law or regulation toward the followers. Buddhist, Hinduism, Islam, Christian, and the others have their own belief and rule. The Devil
and Miss Prym novel tells about the society religion and belief, in Viscos there is only one religion that describe in the novel, it is Catholic. It shows that morality also
can be judge from the religion side. The content of morality in Christian and catholic is all about what God expects men to do and obeying His commands. The main point
is man know what is the will of God. If human obey God commands means they are good but in other way, if human disobey God commands means they are evil.
The act of calling God to witness an untruth of something is prejury; an act of prejury is morally evil, an offense against the virtue of religion. The use of God’s
name in prayer is good but it is depend on the purpose of the person who pray. Pray must be followed by the right action and purpose of the prayer. Bourke in his book
Ethics 1953 state that Prayer is essentially an act of the intellect, so he who prays must attend to what he is doing. There are three things which should be attended to,
in a good prayer: 1 the correct words; 2 the meaning of the words; and 3 the End of the prayer, that is, God and the thing which is the object of the petition.
2.6 Moral judgment
