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- John Rawls
John Bordley Rawls (21 Feb 1921 - 24 Nov
2002), a Harvard University professor, was a
leading American figure in Moral Philosophy. ...
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- Ethics
Ethics (from the
Ancient Greek ethikos, the adjective
of ethos, "custom, habit"), is a
major branch of Philosophy and the
study of Value Theory,
Customs and Morality of a person or
group. It covers the analysis and employment
of concepts such as Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, and
moral responsibility. Ethics is divided into
three primary areas: Metaethics (the
of the concept of ethics), Normative
Ethics (the study of how to determine
ethical values), and Applied Ethics
(the study of the use of ethical values).
Metaethics:
One strand of Metaethics is called
"non-realism", because it suggests moral
values are creations, dependent on people's
feelings and goals regarding themselves and
others (emotivism or prescriptivism) or on
their belief systems (cultural or individual
relativism). Despite the name, non-realist
theories may see reality as important in
shaping the human choice of ethical values.
This could occur indirectly by, for example,
the evolutionary or developmental shaping of
human psychology, or directly through, for
example, people assessing and debating the
likely consequences of their
actions.
Another group of metaethical
theories, by contrast hold that moral value
is a Realism, somehow an
intrinsic property of the world and that
ethical principles are simply discovered or
intuited. Under this view, ethical values
held by people can at best reflect an
independent Truth by which their
validity must be judged. These theories may
be derived from Theology or Naturalism.
Most
informed Ethics discussions will consider the
metaethical position of the participants
involved, and the importance of this
distinction can be seen clearly when we
consider Ethics in Psychology (below). ...
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