In humanities, morality is a doctrine or system of moral conduct, moral principles, or rules of conduct deemed to be ideals of right human conduct; in general, actions which are considered virtuous. [1] The following is American author Thomas Dreier’s 1948 description of morality viewed in the context human chemical reactions, divorce, and marriage: [5]

“The trouble is that too many people get chemical reactions all mixed up with morals. They call immoral what is only a normal chemical reaction.”

In justifying this statement, Dreier states that chlorine can react with sodium to make the moral product table salt; whereas, conversely, chlorine (sulfur dichloride) can react with ethylene to make immoral mustard gas, as was used in WWI by the Germans against the British. Dreier argues that human beings can react and combine according to the same basic laws, making moral and immoral combinations of marriages.

Ethics thermodynamics

See main: Philosophical thermodynamics

The first to state that morality was based in the logic of chemistry and physics was German polymath Johann Goethe. In 1808, a year prior to the publication of his famed novella Elective Affinities, he commented to his friend Reimer that:

“The moral symbols used in the natural sciences were the elective affinities discovered and employed by the great Bergman.”

The adjacent diagram shows Swedish chemist Torbern Bergman's chemical "symbols" (proto-types of modern chemical reactions), from his 1775 textbook A Dissertation on Elective Attractions, with which Goethe not only used to explain what is moral or amoral in human existence, particularly in regards to marriage and divorce, but, in a seemingly effortless manner, scripts a complex novella love rectangle over this logic. In a modern sence, Goethe's statement translates to an effect that what is moral or amoral in human activity is a perspective determined according to the free energies of reactions between people.

Beginning in 1985, American educator Dick Hammond worked to establish a thermodynamics-based type of “moral education” in and about the schools of Texas. [3] In 2006, American economist and anthropologist William Frederick argued that “the natural motivator of all business and economic activity is thermodynamics entropy”, that “thermodynamics defines and sustains the principle motive of economizing”, and by virtue of these and other understructures that “the confluence and contradictions among these underlying natural forces produce the distinctive, peculiar moral proclivities and ethical dilemmas of the evolutionary firm.” [4]

References
1. Morality (definition) – Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 2000, version 2.5.
2. Wiese, Benno von. (1951). Anmerkungen to Die Wahlverwandtschaften. In Goethe’s Werke, edited by Benno von Wiese. Vol. 19. Pg. 621, Hamberg: Wegener.
3. Hammond, Dick E. (2005). Human System from Entropy to Ethics. Publisher: Dick Hammond.
4. Frederick, William C. (2006). Corporation, be Good! The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility (Part III: Nature and Corporate Morality, pgs 123-98, esp. 152, and keyword “entropy”, pgs. 130-57). Dog Ear Publishing.
4. Dreier, Thomas. (1948). We Human Chemicals: the Knack of Getting Along with Everybody (pg. 59). Updegraff Press.