CMN 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Meta-Ethics, Deontological Ethics, Moral Reasoning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3105
• Professor: Mahmoud Eid

Document Summary

Ethic of foundation: ethics falls under the study of philosophy and has many perspectives and approaches, it refers to the right conduct or right thing, discusses theories, branches, meaning and relation to morality. It paved the road for communication ethics and indicates how difficult it is to decipher what ethical communication is: ethics comes from the greek ethos which means character , and ethics is individual due to many different perspectives. Ethics bring culture, values, moral customs, environment and upbringing in order to make this judgement: ethics are moral principles for living and making decisions. And morality means customs and manners, therefore your morals can effect your ethics: key factor for successful ethical decision making is the development of moral beliefs. Choice selection is a decision making process: 3 branches of ethics: metaethics, normative, and applied. Metaethics: good, right, justice, fair; and attempts to find the nature of things. Metaethics guides normative and applied, this derives more from the philosophers.