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M. Ali Haider
BENF16E114
To
Madam Riffat
University of Sargodha
 Morality speaks of a system of behavior in
regards to the standards of right and wrong
behavior. The word carries concept of;
 Moral standards, with regard to behavior.
 Moral responsibility, referring to our conscience.
 Moral identity; one who is capable of right or wrong
action.
 Common synonyms include ethic, principles, virtue
and goodness.
Morality describes the principles that govern our
behavior. Morality relates to our behavior on three
levels;
• To ensure fair play and harmony between individuals.
• Help to make us good people in order to have a good
society.
• To keep us in a good relationship with the power that
created us.
Morality impacts on our everyday decisions.
Conscience is a matter of our hearts, that concepts of
right, wrong and fairness are programmed in each of us.
Our decisions are based solely on our need to survive.
Sometimes, it is based on learned behaviors.
A branch of philosophy that involves systematizing,
defending and recommending concepts of right and
wrong conduct. The term ‘ethics’ is derived from an
ancient greek word ‘ethos’ mean ‘habit. The branch of
philosophy ‘axiology’ comprises the sub-branches of
ethics and aesthetics, each concerned with values.
Rushworth Kidder states that;
“Standard definitions of ethics have typically
included such phrases as ‘the science of the ideal human
character’ or ‘ the science of moral duty.”
Ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality by
defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue
and vice, justice and crime. Moral philosophy is also related to
the fields of moral psychology, descriptive ethics and value
theory.
States that “the word ‘ethics’ is commonly used
interchangeably with ‘morality’ and sometimes used
more to mean the moral principles of a particular
tradition, group or individual”.
Most people confuse ethics with behaving in accordance
with social conventions, religious beliefs and the laws
and don’t treat ethics as a stand alone concept.
1. Meta-Ethics; concerning the theoretical meaning
and reference of moral propositions and how their
truth values can be determined.
2. Normative Ethics; concerning the practical
meanings of determining a moral course of action.
3. Applied Ethics; concerns what is obligated in a
specific situation or a particular domain of action.
Meta ethics asks how we understand, know about and
what we mean, when we talk about what is right and
what is wrong. A meta-ethical question is abstract and
relates to a wide range of more specific practical
questions. For example, “Is it ever possible to have a
secure knowledge of what is right and wrong?” would
be a meta ethical question.
Meta-ethics has always accompanied philosophical
ethics. Aristotle implies that less precise knowledge is
possible in ethics than in other spheres of inquiry and he
regards ethical knowledge as depending upon habit and
acculturation in a way that makes it distinctive from
other kinds of knowledge.
Study of how we know in ethics divided into
cognitivism and non-cognitivism; similar to the
contrast between descriptivists and non-
descriptivists.
 Non-cognitivism is claim that when we judge
something as right or wrong; this is neither true or
false. We may for example be only expressing our
emotional feelings about these things.
 Cognitivism can be refer as the claim when we
talk about right or wrong, we are talking about the
matters of fact.
Is the study of ethical action. It is the branch of
ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when
considering how one ought to act, morally speaking.
o Is distinct form meta-ethics because it examines standards for
the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies
the meaning of moral language and metaphysics of moral facts.
o also distinct from descriptive ethics, as the latter is an
empirical investigation of people’s moral beliefs. To put it another
way, descriptive ethics would be concerned with determining what
proportion of people believe that killing is always wrong.
o Normative ethics is concerned with whether it is
correct to hold such a belief, hence sometimes
called prescriptive ethics.
o is a moral theory, was to study what makes actions
right or wrong.
 At the turn of 20th century, moral theories became more
complex beyond the boundaries of right and wrong. During
the middle of century, study of normative ethics declined as
meta-ethics grew in prominence due to intense linguistic
focus in analytic philosophy and by popularity of logical
positivism.
 Virtue ethics describes the character of a moral
agent as a driving force.
o used to describe the ethics of Socrates,
Aristotle and other Greek philosophers.
o Knowledge bearing on human life was placed
highest, while all other knowledge were secondary.
o Self-knowledge was considered necessary for
success and inherently an essential good.
o A self-aware person will act completely within
his capabilities, while an ignorant person will
encounter difficulty.
o people must aware of every fact relevant to his
existence, if he wishes to attain self-knowledge.
o People will naturally do what is good. Evil and bad
actions are the result of ignorance.
 Aristotle (384-323 BC) posited an ethical system
termed “self-realizationism”. In his view , when a
people acts in accordance with his nature and
potential, he will do good and be content.
 stoicism The stoic philosopher posited that the
greatest good was contentment and serenity. Peace
of mind or Apatheia, highest value; self mastery
over one’s desires and emotions lead to spiritual
peace. The “unconquerable will’’.
Hedonism posits that principal ethic is maximizing
pleasure and minimizing pain. It states the most ethical
pursuit maximizes pleasure and happiness for the most
people.
Cyrenaic hedonism founded by Aristipus of
Cyrene, Cyrenaics supported immetiate gratification or
pleasure. “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we
die’’. No concern with the future. Present dominating
for pleasure.
Epicureanism ethics is a hedonist form of virtue
ethics, presented argument that pleasure, correctly
understood, will coincide with virtue. He rejected
extremism of cynaics.
also known as “Mohist consequentialism”, is an
ethical theory that evaluates the moral worth of an
action based on how much it contributes to he basic
goods of a state.
o A remarkably sophisticated version based on a
plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of
human welfare.
o The pleasure of moral good.
Refers to moral theories that hold the consequences
of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral
judgment about that action.
o A morally right action is the one that produces a good
outcome, or consequence.
o This theory is weight given to the consequences in
evaluating the rightness and wrongness of the action.
Utilitarianism holds that morally correct action is the
one that produces the best outcome for all people
affected by the action
an approach to ethics that determines goodness or
rightness from examining acts, or the rules and duties
that the person doing the act strove to fulfill. Acts may
be considered as right even if the act produces a bad
consequence.
o People have duty to act in a way that does those
things that are inherently good as acts.
o peoples intentions are not important.
associated with pragmatists, holds that moral
correctness evolves similarly to scientific knowledge:
socially over the course of many lifetimes. Thus, we
should prioritize social reform over attempts to account
for consequences , individual virtue or duty.
contrasts with more well- known ethical methods
such as consequentialist theories and deontological in
that it seeks to incorporate traditionally feminized
virtues and values that---proponents of care ethics
contend—are absent in such traditional model of ethics.
These values include the importance of empathetic
relationships and compassion.
an ethical theory based on family roles. Unlike virtue
ethics, role ethics is not individualistic. Morality is
derived from a person’s relationship with their
community.
 Anarchist ethics
an ethical theory based on the studies of anarchist
thinkers. The anarchist ethics is large, vague field that
can depend on different historical situations and
different anarchist thinkers.
Most of the anarchist ethic schools are based on three
fundamental ideas; ‘ Solidarity, equality and justice’.
Ethics is like a inherited as a sort of a social instinct
through history.
 Postmodern ethics
The 20th century saw a remarkable expansion and
evolution of critical theory, following on earlier Marxist
theory efforts to locate individuals within larger
structural frameworks of ideology and action.
o Human relationships to knowledge and ‘objective’
reality.
o Ethics must study the complex and relational
conditions of actions.
o obligations that are present themselves as necessary
to be fulfilled but are neither forced on one or are
enforceable.
is a discipline of philosophy that attempts to apply
ethical theory to real life situations.
o discipline has many specialized fields, such as
Engineering ethics, bioethics, geoethics and
business ethics.
o is used in some aspects of determining public
policy, as well as by individuals facing difficult
decisions.
 Bioethics
is the study of controversial ethics brought about by
advances in biology and medicine.
o concerned with the questions that arise in the
relationships among life sciences, biotechnology,
medicine, politics, law and philosophy.
is a form of applied ethics that examines ethical
principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in
business environment.
o Has both normative and descriptive dimensions.
 Machine ethics
issue in machine ethics will likely drive advancement
in understanding of human ethics by forcing us to
address gaps in modern normative theory and by
providing a platform for experimental investigation.
are considered with the questions regarding the
application of force and the ethos of the soldier and are
often understood as applied professional ethics. Just war
theory is generally seen to set the background terms of
military ethics.
 Political ethics
political ethics is the practice of making moral
judgments about political actions and political agents.
is a set of principles that guide public officials in
their service to their constituents, including their
decision making on behalf of their constituents.
o Decisions and action are based on what best serves
the public’s interest.
o Opposed to the official’s personal interest.
is the set of principles that guide the writing and
publishing process for all professional publications.
o Authors must verify the publication.
o a way to avoid misconduct in research these
principles can also apply to experiments that are
analyzed in publications by ensuring the data is
recorded honestly and accurately.
is related to an ethics of care, used in qualitative
research, especially ethnography. Researchers who
employ relational ethics value respect the connection
between themselves. Communities in which they live in
work and developing friendship with their participants.
o Relational ethics in close personal relationships
form a central concept of contextual therapy.
is term used in academia to describe human-animal
relationships and how animals ought to be treated.
Subject matter includes animal rights, animal welfare,
animal law, animal cognition, wildlife conservation, the
moral status of nonhuman animal, the concept of
nonhuman personhood, the history of human use and
theories of justice.
is a field of study that began as an issue in
philosophy and that is now properly considered part of
discipline of psychology.
o the study of moral development.
o the intersection of ethics, psychology and
philosophy of mind.
o involvement of mind in moral issues, moral
responsibility, moral development, moral character.
concerns approaches to ethics based on the role of
evolution in shaping human psychology and behavior,
focus on understanding and explaining observed ethical
preferences and choices.
 Descriptive ethics
is on less philosophical end of spectrum, gather
particular information about how people live and draw
general conclusions based on observed patterns.
o Descriptive ethics refers to a value-free approach to
ethics, defines it as a social science rather than a
humanity. The study of descriptive ethics may
include examinations of following:
o Ethical codes applied by various groups. Some
consider aesthetics itself the basis of ethics.
o Informal theories of etiquette that tend to be less
rigorous and more situational. Ethics to this view, is
more a summary of common sense social decisions.
o Practices in arbitration and law, e.g., the claim that
ethics itself is a matter of balancing “right versus right”.
o Observed choices are made by ordinary people,
without expert aid or advice, who vote, buy, and decide
what is worth valuing. This is major concern of
sociology, political science and economics
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Philosophy of morality and ethics

  • 1. By M. Ali Haider BENF16E114 To Madam Riffat University of Sargodha
  • 2.  Morality speaks of a system of behavior in regards to the standards of right and wrong behavior. The word carries concept of;  Moral standards, with regard to behavior.  Moral responsibility, referring to our conscience.  Moral identity; one who is capable of right or wrong action.  Common synonyms include ethic, principles, virtue and goodness.
  • 3. Morality describes the principles that govern our behavior. Morality relates to our behavior on three levels; • To ensure fair play and harmony between individuals. • Help to make us good people in order to have a good society. • To keep us in a good relationship with the power that created us.
  • 4. Morality impacts on our everyday decisions. Conscience is a matter of our hearts, that concepts of right, wrong and fairness are programmed in each of us. Our decisions are based solely on our need to survive. Sometimes, it is based on learned behaviors.
  • 5. A branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term ‘ethics’ is derived from an ancient greek word ‘ethos’ mean ‘habit. The branch of philosophy ‘axiology’ comprises the sub-branches of ethics and aesthetics, each concerned with values.
  • 6. Rushworth Kidder states that; “Standard definitions of ethics have typically included such phrases as ‘the science of the ideal human character’ or ‘ the science of moral duty.” Ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality by defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime. Moral philosophy is also related to the fields of moral psychology, descriptive ethics and value theory.
  • 7. States that “the word ‘ethics’ is commonly used interchangeably with ‘morality’ and sometimes used more to mean the moral principles of a particular tradition, group or individual”. Most people confuse ethics with behaving in accordance with social conventions, religious beliefs and the laws and don’t treat ethics as a stand alone concept.
  • 8. 1. Meta-Ethics; concerning the theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions and how their truth values can be determined. 2. Normative Ethics; concerning the practical meanings of determining a moral course of action. 3. Applied Ethics; concerns what is obligated in a specific situation or a particular domain of action.
  • 9. Meta ethics asks how we understand, know about and what we mean, when we talk about what is right and what is wrong. A meta-ethical question is abstract and relates to a wide range of more specific practical questions. For example, “Is it ever possible to have a secure knowledge of what is right and wrong?” would be a meta ethical question.
  • 10. Meta-ethics has always accompanied philosophical ethics. Aristotle implies that less precise knowledge is possible in ethics than in other spheres of inquiry and he regards ethical knowledge as depending upon habit and acculturation in a way that makes it distinctive from other kinds of knowledge. Study of how we know in ethics divided into cognitivism and non-cognitivism; similar to the contrast between descriptivists and non- descriptivists.
  • 11.  Non-cognitivism is claim that when we judge something as right or wrong; this is neither true or false. We may for example be only expressing our emotional feelings about these things.  Cognitivism can be refer as the claim when we talk about right or wrong, we are talking about the matters of fact.
  • 12. Is the study of ethical action. It is the branch of ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act, morally speaking. o Is distinct form meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and metaphysics of moral facts. o also distinct from descriptive ethics, as the latter is an empirical investigation of people’s moral beliefs. To put it another way, descriptive ethics would be concerned with determining what proportion of people believe that killing is always wrong.
  • 13. o Normative ethics is concerned with whether it is correct to hold such a belief, hence sometimes called prescriptive ethics. o is a moral theory, was to study what makes actions right or wrong.  At the turn of 20th century, moral theories became more complex beyond the boundaries of right and wrong. During the middle of century, study of normative ethics declined as meta-ethics grew in prominence due to intense linguistic focus in analytic philosophy and by popularity of logical positivism.
  • 14.  Virtue ethics describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force. o used to describe the ethics of Socrates, Aristotle and other Greek philosophers. o Knowledge bearing on human life was placed highest, while all other knowledge were secondary. o Self-knowledge was considered necessary for success and inherently an essential good.
  • 15. o A self-aware person will act completely within his capabilities, while an ignorant person will encounter difficulty. o people must aware of every fact relevant to his existence, if he wishes to attain self-knowledge. o People will naturally do what is good. Evil and bad actions are the result of ignorance.
  • 16.  Aristotle (384-323 BC) posited an ethical system termed “self-realizationism”. In his view , when a people acts in accordance with his nature and potential, he will do good and be content.  stoicism The stoic philosopher posited that the greatest good was contentment and serenity. Peace of mind or Apatheia, highest value; self mastery over one’s desires and emotions lead to spiritual peace. The “unconquerable will’’.
  • 17. Hedonism posits that principal ethic is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. It states the most ethical pursuit maximizes pleasure and happiness for the most people. Cyrenaic hedonism founded by Aristipus of Cyrene, Cyrenaics supported immetiate gratification or pleasure. “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die’’. No concern with the future. Present dominating for pleasure.
  • 18. Epicureanism ethics is a hedonist form of virtue ethics, presented argument that pleasure, correctly understood, will coincide with virtue. He rejected extremism of cynaics.
  • 19. also known as “Mohist consequentialism”, is an ethical theory that evaluates the moral worth of an action based on how much it contributes to he basic goods of a state. o A remarkably sophisticated version based on a plurality of intrinsic goods taken as constitutive of human welfare. o The pleasure of moral good.
  • 20. Refers to moral theories that hold the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action. o A morally right action is the one that produces a good outcome, or consequence. o This theory is weight given to the consequences in evaluating the rightness and wrongness of the action. Utilitarianism holds that morally correct action is the one that produces the best outcome for all people affected by the action
  • 21. an approach to ethics that determines goodness or rightness from examining acts, or the rules and duties that the person doing the act strove to fulfill. Acts may be considered as right even if the act produces a bad consequence. o People have duty to act in a way that does those things that are inherently good as acts. o peoples intentions are not important.
  • 22. associated with pragmatists, holds that moral correctness evolves similarly to scientific knowledge: socially over the course of many lifetimes. Thus, we should prioritize social reform over attempts to account for consequences , individual virtue or duty.
  • 23. contrasts with more well- known ethical methods such as consequentialist theories and deontological in that it seeks to incorporate traditionally feminized virtues and values that---proponents of care ethics contend—are absent in such traditional model of ethics. These values include the importance of empathetic relationships and compassion.
  • 24. an ethical theory based on family roles. Unlike virtue ethics, role ethics is not individualistic. Morality is derived from a person’s relationship with their community.  Anarchist ethics an ethical theory based on the studies of anarchist thinkers. The anarchist ethics is large, vague field that can depend on different historical situations and different anarchist thinkers.
  • 25. Most of the anarchist ethic schools are based on three fundamental ideas; ‘ Solidarity, equality and justice’. Ethics is like a inherited as a sort of a social instinct through history.  Postmodern ethics The 20th century saw a remarkable expansion and evolution of critical theory, following on earlier Marxist theory efforts to locate individuals within larger structural frameworks of ideology and action.
  • 26. o Human relationships to knowledge and ‘objective’ reality. o Ethics must study the complex and relational conditions of actions. o obligations that are present themselves as necessary to be fulfilled but are neither forced on one or are enforceable.
  • 27. is a discipline of philosophy that attempts to apply ethical theory to real life situations. o discipline has many specialized fields, such as Engineering ethics, bioethics, geoethics and business ethics. o is used in some aspects of determining public policy, as well as by individuals facing difficult decisions.
  • 28.  Bioethics is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine. o concerned with the questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law and philosophy.
  • 29. is a form of applied ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in business environment. o Has both normative and descriptive dimensions.  Machine ethics issue in machine ethics will likely drive advancement in understanding of human ethics by forcing us to address gaps in modern normative theory and by providing a platform for experimental investigation.
  • 30. are considered with the questions regarding the application of force and the ethos of the soldier and are often understood as applied professional ethics. Just war theory is generally seen to set the background terms of military ethics.  Political ethics political ethics is the practice of making moral judgments about political actions and political agents.
  • 31. is a set of principles that guide public officials in their service to their constituents, including their decision making on behalf of their constituents. o Decisions and action are based on what best serves the public’s interest. o Opposed to the official’s personal interest.
  • 32. is the set of principles that guide the writing and publishing process for all professional publications. o Authors must verify the publication. o a way to avoid misconduct in research these principles can also apply to experiments that are analyzed in publications by ensuring the data is recorded honestly and accurately.
  • 33. is related to an ethics of care, used in qualitative research, especially ethnography. Researchers who employ relational ethics value respect the connection between themselves. Communities in which they live in work and developing friendship with their participants. o Relational ethics in close personal relationships form a central concept of contextual therapy.
  • 34. is term used in academia to describe human-animal relationships and how animals ought to be treated. Subject matter includes animal rights, animal welfare, animal law, animal cognition, wildlife conservation, the moral status of nonhuman animal, the concept of nonhuman personhood, the history of human use and theories of justice.
  • 35. is a field of study that began as an issue in philosophy and that is now properly considered part of discipline of psychology. o the study of moral development. o the intersection of ethics, psychology and philosophy of mind. o involvement of mind in moral issues, moral responsibility, moral development, moral character.
  • 36. concerns approaches to ethics based on the role of evolution in shaping human psychology and behavior, focus on understanding and explaining observed ethical preferences and choices.  Descriptive ethics is on less philosophical end of spectrum, gather particular information about how people live and draw general conclusions based on observed patterns.
  • 37. o Descriptive ethics refers to a value-free approach to ethics, defines it as a social science rather than a humanity. The study of descriptive ethics may include examinations of following: o Ethical codes applied by various groups. Some consider aesthetics itself the basis of ethics.
  • 38. o Informal theories of etiquette that tend to be less rigorous and more situational. Ethics to this view, is more a summary of common sense social decisions. o Practices in arbitration and law, e.g., the claim that ethics itself is a matter of balancing “right versus right”. o Observed choices are made by ordinary people, without expert aid or advice, who vote, buy, and decide what is worth valuing. This is major concern of sociology, political science and economics