morality, morality - concepts are always closely in contact with the life of society, and varies depending on the era.Some of them belong to the category of so-called eternal values.Others are relative.And what was considered unacceptable at the same time, it is perfectly acceptable to another.
categories ugliness
Our article is devoted to the concept of "moral monster."To understand it, you need to study the phenomenon of ugliness with aesthetic, ethical, lexical point of view.Let's start with the first one.Standards of beauty, despite their subjectivity, were reduced to a certain uniformity.If it was a person, it valued the right facial features, proportional to the slim body, the presence of paired limbs, organs (eyes, ears).Everything had to function normally.Any deviation in appearance, causes negative emotions perceived by others as non-standard.Meaning of the word "freak" in this case was identical to the concepts of "ugly", "ugly", "repulsive", "bad".Remember the famous novel by Victor Hugo - "The Man Who Laughs" and "Notre Dame de Paris."Their protagonists - the hunchback Quasimodo and itinerant actor Gwynplaine - are typical aesthetic renegades.They literally looks terrible, even a passing glance thrown at them plunges the soul in awe.
Ethics and aesthetics
But this same example, we can easily verify the other, between the beauty of the ethical and aesthetic no equal sign.Because moral monster and the monster in appearance are often at opposite poles.The same Quasimodo was able to sublime wonderful feeling to the deed of self-sacrifice in the name of love.His soul encased in an ugly shell of a body, amazingly beautiful, because of its foundation make the best human qualities.But the spiritual antagonist hunchback - the priest Claude Frollo, - looks quite ordinary, and there is a real, you can say the classic moral monster.Why is that?This autocratic ascetic, deliberately killing a human weakness and all the senses.Devoting his life to God, he forgot that the Lord - this is love: the people, the light, the beauty of life.Hypocrite and a misanthrope, a priest kills a young Esmeralda because it awakened in his body and heart of those needs and emotions, which Frollo struggled for years and, as I thought, was able to win.Therefore, a moral monster - one who violates the human community, goes against them.Who betrays commits cruel, cowardly, criminal act.This category is suitable another product character - Captain Phoebus, the handsome officer who conquered Esmeralda courteous manners and tinsel.How his name is sunny, so vile and low it is the soul of the hero and the ugly behavior.
moral and immoral
«moral" and "immoral" - words are antonyms, and in this sense, the phrase "an immoral freak" means the highest degree of immorality, spiritual poverty, moral degradation.Who fits this category?Anyone, regardless of age and sex, deliberately do bad things.It is immoral to hurt the defenseless, to humiliate the weak: kick a kitten, cast adrift dog to abandon a child or elderly parents.Saying stuff behind the back of a friend, "unseat" colleague, cheat on who to trust - is also unscrupulously and goes beyond what is permitted.In this respect, the same ordinary criminal, envious, angry mowing more fortunate neighbors, and the government's largest country, plundered the national wealth, gnobyaschee his people or incite war.
is immoral what is vicious, that comes with the universal mismatch in the Code of Good.
