What Is Ethics
1. What is ethics? What is morality?
Ethics is the philosophical study of morality. Morality refers to the belief of right and wrong, good and bad, beliefs that can include judgments, values, rules, principles and theories.
2. In what ways are we forced to do ethics? What is at stake in these deliberations?
A person is forced to do ethics every time they exam any feeling, choice, or action concerning right or wrong. The thing that is at stake when doing ethics is a person’s values.
3. What is the unfortunate result of accepting moral beliefs without questioning them?
Some of the unfortunate results of accepting moral beliefs without questioning them are it undermines your personal freedom meaning if you just accept belief from someone else without thinking about them they are not truly your beliefs. Another result of blindly accepting belief of someone else is when asked to defend these beliefs the person may have no sound argument to back it up. Finally it limits intellectual moral growth.
4. Can our feelings be our sole guide to morality? Why or why not?
Feelings should not be sole guide to morality because by solely following feelings a person is not critically examining the problem.
5. What is descriptive ethics? In this field, what do researchers study?
Descriptive ethics is the moral study of belief and practices. Researchers in this field try to explain how people actually behave and think.
6. What is normative ethics? Applied ethics?
Normative ethics is the study of principles, rules, or theories that guide our actions and judgments. Applied ethics is application of moral norms applied to a specific moral issue.
7. What is metaethics? What is the difference between normative ethics and metaethics?
Metaethics is the study of the meaning and logical structure of moral beliefs. Normative ethics job is to assume certain things about the meaning of moral terms and the logic relation among them but the job of
Ethics is the philosophical study of morality. Morality refers to the belief of right and wrong, good and bad, beliefs that can include judgments, values, rules, principles and theories.
2. In what ways are we forced to do ethics? What is at stake in these deliberations?
A person is forced to do ethics every time they exam any feeling, choice, or action concerning right or wrong. The thing that is at stake when doing ethics is a person’s values.
3. What is the unfortunate result of accepting moral beliefs without questioning them?
Some of the unfortunate results of accepting moral beliefs without questioning them are it undermines your personal freedom meaning if you just accept belief from someone else without thinking about them they are not truly your beliefs. Another result of blindly accepting belief of someone else is when asked to defend these beliefs the person may have no sound argument to back it up. Finally it limits intellectual moral growth.
4. Can our feelings be our sole guide to morality? Why or why not?
Feelings should not be sole guide to morality because by solely following feelings a person is not critically examining the problem.
5. What is descriptive ethics? In this field, what do researchers study?
Descriptive ethics is the moral study of belief and practices. Researchers in this field try to explain how people actually behave and think.
6. What is normative ethics? Applied ethics?
Normative ethics is the study of principles, rules, or theories that guide our actions and judgments. Applied ethics is application of moral norms applied to a specific moral issue.
7. What is metaethics? What is the difference between normative ethics and metaethics?
Metaethics is the study of the meaning and logical structure of moral beliefs. Normative ethics job is to assume certain things about the meaning of moral terms and the logic relation among them but the job of