Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions

Evidence

Moral behaviour is conceivable only in the context of coexistence, of ‘being with others’, that is, a social context; but it does not owe its appearance to the presence of supra-individual agencies of training and enforcement, that is, of a societal context. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 499

Categorization

• DEFINE: Bauman’s key distinction between ‘social’ (being with others) and ‘societal’ (supra-individual agencies) — a precise terminological split the reader needs named.
• XREF: connects to: Manners function as instruments of social control, not mere decorum. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 63; Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601; Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 612 (+14 more)

Related

• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity (similarity 0.90)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure (similarity 0.87)
• Moral resistance is personal while immorality requires social production (similarity 0.85)
• Moral choices are socially formed dispositions, not detached rational decisions (similarity 0.85)
• Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality (similarity 0.84)
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.84)
• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible (similarity 0.84)
• Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles (similarity 0.83)
• Individual moral judgment can remain intact without any supporting social rules (similarity 0.83)
• Individual moral courage defies class, education, and political determinants (similarity 0.82)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.82)
• Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force (similarity 0.82)
• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery (similarity 0.82)
• Moral violations get theorized as production failures within a factory metaphor of society (similarity 0.81)
• Explaining morality as mere authority leaves its ultimate origin unexplained (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure #qualifies (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514
• Morality is an evolved sense of fairness, not a late intellectual achievement #expands (0.78) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 656
• Moral obligations derive from objective ideality, not from society or individual will #contradicts (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 356
• Morality evolves from individual partner-choice competition, not group selection. #qualifies (0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 605