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    MORALITY

    Definition and Key Terms


    • Ethics
    • Morality
    • Ethical
    • Unethical
    • Moral
    • Immoral
    • Amoral
    • Nonmoral
    Ethics and Morality
    Ethics and Morality

    by definition:

    “Ethics is the practical and


    philosophical science of the
    morality of human acts or human
    conduct.”
    • ETHICS
    as a science
    as a practical science
    as a philosophical science

    • MORALITY
    Ethics and Morality

    field of study

    “Ethics is the practical and


    philosophical science of the
    morality of human acts or human
    conduct.”
    the quality of right and
    wrong in human acts
    WHAT ETHICS IS NOT?
    1. Not based on Feelings. Feelings frequently deviate from what is
    ethical.
    2. Not about religion. Ethics cannot be confined to religion nor is it the
    same as religion.
    3. Not the same as following the law. Laws can deviate from what is
    ethical.
    4. Not doing "whatever society accepts." An entire society can
    become ethically corrupt.
    5. Not doing Culture.
    Ethical and Moral
    Ethical and Moral

    Good and Right


    Unethical and Immoral
    Unethical and Immoral

    Bad and Wrong


    Ethics and Morality

    by usage:

    Eating while talking….

    Adultery….

    Immora
    l
    or
    Amoral
    Amoral means…

    “having no moral sense,”


    or
    being indifferent to right and
    wrong…
    An amoral person is someone who…

    “a person characterized by emotional


    instability, lack of sound judgment, perverse
    and impulsive (often criminal) behavior,
    inability to learn from experience, amoral
    and asocial feelings, and other serious
    personality defects.”
    An amoral person is someone who…

    ⮚knows what the ethical rules are, at


    least he can repeat them parrotlike, but
    they are void of meaning to him.”

    ⮚“No sense of conscience, guilt, or


    remorse is present.”
    A man of 30 is discovered to have enticed
    boys and men to his apartment to have sex
    with them. In 15 of these encounters he
    killed them, had sex with their corpses, ate
    their flesh, and dismembered their bodies,
    keeping some body parts in the freezer and
    disposing others in a vat of acid.

    When caught, he admitted to all of these


    actions. Though obviously bizarre and
    perverted, he was nevertheless considered
    to be legally sane – that is, as being able to
    distinguish right from wrong.
    Nonmoral
    Nonmoral means…

    “out of the realm


    of morality
    altogether”
    Examples…

    inanimate objects

    fields of study

    feelings

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