PHIL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Virtue Ethics, Stoicism, Cultural Relativism
26 Jan 2018
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In broad terms ethics itself with the question of morality. What is right and what is wrong in human relations? concerns. Descriptive ethics is in part an attempt to distinguish what is from what ought to be. It seeks to identify moral experience in a descriptive way. We seek to identify, within the range of human conduct, the motives, desires, and intentions as well as overt acts themselves. We consider the conduct of individuals, or personal morality; and the the culture patterns of national and racial groups. social morality; conduct of groups, or. It centered on the analysis and meaning of the terms and language used in ethical discourse and the kind of reasoning used to justify ethical statements. Metaethics does not propound any moral principle or goal (except by implication), but rather consists entirely of philosophical analysis: What is the meaning of (cid:498)good? (cid:499)
