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The study group consisted of 141 prospective teachers from the Faculty of Education 1 st year Art Teaching, Turkish Language Teaching, and Elementary Mathematics Teaching Departments at a university in the Middle Black Sea Region in the 2019-2020 academic year. A structured openended questionnaire consisting of items aiming to explore the perceptions of prospective teachers about the concept of morality was designed to collect data. The descriptive analysis method was used for data analysis. The results of the analysis showed that prospective teachers mostly perceived morality as a society-centered concept. While nature-centered perceptions, which indicate that morality has innate characteristics that include personal/internal processes of human beings, ranked second place, God-centered morality perception ranked third place. The metaphorical perceptions of prospective teachers were also greatly influenced by their societycentered understanding. In their metaphors about the concept of morality, prospective teachers mostly mentioned objects suitable for growing and shaping, such as flowers, trees, plants, saplings, and ivy. Moreover, it is possible to say that while prospective teachers were exemplifying moral behaviors, they focused more on external factors that are generally accepted in a society.  \nKeywords: Morality, prospective teachers, metaphor  \n*Assist. Prof. Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Education, Taşlıçiftlik Campus, Tokat, Turkey Email: [ozge.mavis@gop.edu.tr](ozge.mavis@gop.edu.tr)  \nIntroduction  \nThe concept of morality, which is described as temperament, character, or manners, expresses the established character structure in humans and the behaviors of individuals that occur under their own will. Although moral preceptions vary by time, society, and culture, they also exhibit mandatory and unchanging rules of behavior (Kılıç, 2012) . This is one of the most emphasized concepts in the field of philosophy. Many philosophers have tried to answer the question of what morality is and associated morality with different concepts. Generally speaking, morality is defined as \"the group or network of beliefs, values, norms, orders, prohibitions, and designs which are involved in the life of a person, group, people, social class, nation, or cultural environment in a certain historical period and which guide their actions\" (Özlem, 2004, p.7) .  \nThe nature of morality calls for preventing the wrong and doing the right. Moral precepts basically tell us what is important and how we should behave towards other people (as well as animals and nature) (Folger, Cropanzano & Goldman, 2005) . In this sense, morality is utilized both to determine the concepts associated with good and bad, right and wrong in a society, and to evaluate the status of a particular action and practice in that area. However, concepts of good and bad, right and wrong may differ from society to society. For example, while female circumcision is seen as necessary and moral in some societies, it is defined as a violation of rights and seen as immoral in others (Hitlin & Vaisey, 2010). Morality is seen as cases under a special light as the reasons for actions, rather than behaving in line with learned principles and it is stated that once this perceptual capacity is acquired, it can be predicted in different situations and can be used in new conditions. In other words, moral precepts that determine what is good and right vary by the situations people encounter (McDowell & McFetridge, 1978) . This shows that perceptual judgments and beliefs play a role in morality (Goldie, 2007) .  \nLiterature Review  \nIt is known that philosophers have different opinions about whether morality is changeable, as well as their efforts to define morality. 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