I agree with this for the most part, I've always consider Ethics to be a branch of philosophy that studies the choices we make and the reasons behind them, or as a set of professional rules of conduct.
I generally avoid the use of the word "moral" because of the religious connotations and also because I don't believe any action is ultimately inherently good or bad, right or wrong, moral or immoral, but that these value judgments ultimately rest upon values of the beholder.
A person may hold that A is of the highest value, and anything that diminishes A would be bad/wrong/immoral. While another person may hold A as being of value, but holds B as being of more value than A, and may think it is moral to diminish A for the sake of B. Meanwhile a third person may argue that A and B are interdependent and diminishing one would diminish the other and places both up on the value shelf. Finally person 4 might be a nihilist and claim that neither is of any ultimate value and that all four of them, A and B are transient and will ultimately be recycled back into the universal muck.
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Date: 2011-Feb-01, Tuesday 10:11 pm (UTC)I agree with this for the most part, I've always consider Ethics to be a branch of philosophy that studies the choices we make and the reasons behind them, or as a set of professional rules of conduct.
I generally avoid the use of the word "moral" because of the religious connotations and also because I don't believe any action is ultimately inherently good or bad, right or wrong, moral or immoral, but that these value judgments ultimately rest upon values of the beholder.
A person may hold that A is of the highest value, and anything that diminishes A would be bad/wrong/immoral. While another person may hold A as being of value, but holds B as being of more value than A, and may think it is moral to diminish A for the sake of B. Meanwhile a third person may argue that A and B are interdependent and diminishing one would diminish the other and places both up on the value shelf. Finally person 4 might be a nihilist and claim that neither is of any ultimate value and that all four of them, A and B are transient and will ultimately be recycled back into the universal muck.