ethical and moral or neither it is important to understand that ethics are moral principles that govern an individual’s behaviour and human conduct, and that morality is the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong. The two are similar yet different because ethics is interested in the good that humans tend towards such as happiness and freedom, while morality is interested in the ways the humans can attain the good (Page 8, ISG) An individual cannot be judged ethical or…
function, humans need to have rules that protect them or else they would be prone to fight to survive. Therefore, the law created moral codes, and laws and whoever should break them shall bear the consequences and those who decide to follow them shall reap the rewards, namely, survival, education, security, and other sources needed to live. In addition, these codes and morals are based upon what a common person would believe is considered to be good. For example, preventing harm, immoral…
How can we decide a better way in which society can become more ethical and moral between the ideas of Deontological Ethics and Virtue Ethics? With each term being ways in which Philosophers find it suitable to act, they differ because of how Deontology focuses on how right or how wrong an action is while Virtues are about a person's role and the good things they can do. With these two terms we have to determine how a person should be judged for the way they find it best to act. In order to…
involving two or more moral imperatives where neither of the options is acceptable unambiguously. The complexity arises because of a situational conflict where selection of one alternative would lead to transgression of the other option. Ethical dilemmas are invoked to refute a moral code or make improvements to it so that a solution can be achieved. Numerous ethical dilemmas are often debated upon from different perspectives with basis of such arguments being religious, moral, cultural and…
By reading Chapter 9 in the book, I have become more familiar with the idea of ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas are instances in which either choice is unfavorable, as each one goes against the moral values of humane society. For our Analysis Essay we will be comparing different articles that we have found, and using insight to determine different outcomes that could happen. With some of the articles that I have found, there is a form of a crossroads where someone has to decide to do what is…
“Different cultures have different moral codes”, James Rachels discusses in his article Why Morality Is Not Relative? (160). Moral codes differ from culture to culture and each culture tends to have their own individual standards. Cultural relativism is said to be “moral rules differ from society to society” (18). Cultural relativism can be looked at as a theory based on nature of morality. Each culture has their own moral codes, typically created by their ancestors. The moral codes claim what…
Scenario: Moral reasoning is defined by Henry Richardson as individual or collective real-world perceptive concerning what, morally, one ought to do pertaining to what is correct and not correct (2013, pp.1). Moral aspects of doing what is proper depend upon moral, conventional, and personal rules from a young age (Matsumoto &Juang, 2013). Morals are based on values, where conventional rules are based on accepted as norms by a group of individuals, and personal rules are based on the personal…
1) Benedict think that morality is when you decide something is right with approval of society and it is something that people in one place create their own culture. Subjectivism is when morality is accepted depending on what each individual think is right or wrong and conventionalism is that morality is accepted based on what society this is right or wrong. She is auguring for the latter. 2) according to Pojaman the different between culture relativism and ethical relativism is…
interest is in the end justifying the means and how the ambition for power can be achieved and maintained, thus leaving little room for questions of morality. The distinctive quality of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is the play’s focus on the complex moral question of what would drive a good man to commit an evil act, believing he was doing it not for his own ambition but to curb the ambition of another. The reading of these two texts in relation to each other thus emphasises their distinctions…
What best describes me in the moral philosophy when making conclusions that best represents my personal and workplace when making decisions is Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is defined as an individual decides on decisions based on everyone. “Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism because it rests in the mind that it is the consequences or results of actions, laws, policies, and so on that define whether they are good or bad, correct or wrong” (Fieger, 2014). Agreeing to our text…