THE IMPORTANCE OF MORALITY IN HUMAN ACTION IN THE NIGERIAN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Ambrose O. Ogueche (PhD), Rev. Fr. Dr. Williams Peter Awoshiri, Bibinu Joseph Umar

Abstract


This work focused on the importance of morality in human action in the Nigerian Society. Morality is predicated on religion. In any society where religion is not strong, morality cannot do well there. The researcher made use of secondary sources of data as the methodology as well as participant observation. The main objective of this work is to highlight the importance of morality on human actions as well as discuss the relationship morality and religion. The work discovered among other things that morality and religion are inseparable. Morality also determined human actions to a large extent. The work recommended among other things that morality and morality must co-exist in a society where there is peace.


Keywords


Importance, Human acts, Morality, Religion, Nigerian Society

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