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Re: Morals & Ethics reprise (was ...)
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Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:50:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> > The way I define things (similar to Richard, but not quite the same), you
> > would be expressing morals - that is, a system of conduct in accordance with
> > right and wrong as you understand them. IMHO, morals are not universal.
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> That's REALLY good James! The lexicographers should be talking to us, Baby!
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> "YOUR morals are not OUR ethics."
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> I will always remember this point of distinction. Damned slippery words...
So-- ok, I've heard several times now that there's a distinction between
ethics and morality. Personally I never was aware of the distinction, but
what exactly is it for those who distinguish?
At a guess, I'd say you're defining it as:
- Morality is one's own moral judgement system. I judge my actions according
to *my* morality, and the result is exactly that-- my own moral judgement,
nobody else's.
- Ethics is a society's combined "morality". An ethical set being how a
society of particular individuals feels about a certain action made by
either its own members or those external to it. (Or is it restricted to its
own members?) Hence, an ethical judgement would *usually* (but not always)
match the *moral* judgement of individuals of that society.
Or am I way off base?
DaveE
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 | | Re: Morals & Ethics reprise (was ...)
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| That's more or less what *I* mean (agreeing with James' further tweaking of these words), but those are not the accepted definitions of the word, not exactly. Generally, the definitions for the words "moral(s)" and "ethics" are very similar, except (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Morals & Ethics reprise (was ...)
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| (...) Nope, that's pretty close. I would say that ethics are not a combined morality, but rather are a suggested morality, but that's only because it has a different implication of the derivation.(1) Further, something as broad as a societal ethic (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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