ABSTRACT

Morality does not exist in a theoretical limbo; it is an entirely practical concept, the warp and weft of the way people live together. Like giftedness, the concept of morality can only be understood within its historical and cultural contexts. And also like giftedness, morality is always relative, in that what is gifted or moral to me is not necessarily gifted or moral to you. It also shares the ephemerality of giftedness – being infuriatingly difficult to define precisely, although a checklist of characteristics that morally gifted people may possess can be useful (see Spreacker 2001).