pre-moral

• The first thing that the pre-moral child learns to say. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
• Either a non-moral or pre-moral reason is given and this can be subjected to rational and empirical analysis like any other claim or no further foundation can be provided. —  Planet Atheism
• Even though it may be desirable to differentiate the moral conduct of men from the social behaviour of animals (to which some such term as "pre-moral" or "quasi-moral" may be applied), still the fact remains that, as Darwin showed, there is abundant evidence of the occurrence of such social behaviour -- social behaviour which, even granted that it is in large part intelligently acquired, and is itself so far a product of educability, is of survival value. —  Evolution in Modern Thought
• s pre-moral behaviors in monkey and ape societies. —  TierneyLab

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