MORALITY AND THE SUSTENANCE OF SOCIAL ORDER IN AN AFRICA

A key basis of the recent problems in many social orders may appear to be a prevalence of ethical and or moral decadence at all levels of social life; political, social and economic, etc. We need to answer the question what is morality and why do we need it in the society? This is important given the need to understand the fundamental roles of intolerance, prejudice, unfair actions towards other and a lack of empathy and sympathy towards others as features of almost every kind of human political or social behaviour that results in discrimination, conflicts, hate, terrorism, and corruption. As such this paper discusses the relationship between morality and social order. It examines how morality underwrites social order and it locates the key moral values through which social order can be established and sustained