CONCLUSION: ETHICS THROUGH

THICK AND THIN, AND ETHICS

RELIGION
DISCUSSIONS:
 This part uses the distinction between thick and thin ethical con
cepts in order to illuminate the philosophical discourse referred
to as "ethics".
THICK ETHICAL CONCEPTS ARE:
a) philosophically useful for adopting a non presentational conception of language.
b) are not derivative from thin ones
BY FOCUSING ON THICK ETHICAL CONCEPTS:
a) ethics can avoid the pitfall of creating a conceptual gap between empirical disco
urse and normative discourse .
b) ethics discloses the rich normative meaning of our social practices.
DISCUSSIONS:

On the contrary, it is the thick concepts th

at are primary, with the THIN ONES mere abstractio
ns from them.
If moral properties supervene on non-moral o
nes, then ANY ACT that is right will have other no
n- moral properties that make it right.
DISCUSSIONS:
In addition, if moral judgements are universal, then any other act with the
same non- moral properties will likewise be right. In this, it differentiate
s by the following examples:
(1) Honesty endangers trust
(2) Kindness encourages friendship.
(3) Mother Teresa's goodness won her a Nobel Prize.
(4) People are starving unnecessarily because of the selfishness of others.
(5) Racial oppression caused political instability and social protest in apa
rtheid South Africa.
(6) Hitler instigated and oversaw the deaths of millions of persons because
he was morally depraved.
(7) Woodworth spent his time and energy arranging his own conveniences rathe
r than organizing an effective search for the missing people because he was
no damn good.