I contended (since forever) that ethics was a person's personal system (not a support of relativism, but everyone has different views; not every christian agrees when it comes to whether or not it's alright to hit children to discipline them, for instance) and that morals was the general system (more vague most of the time, logically,) of the surrounding populus of a given area; morals of Miami Florida, of Florida, the US, Western countries, or the block I live on, whatever the designated sample. A kind of general concensus of the majority's ethical systems. Is this view correct or misguided? Have I been misrepresenting the two words? Mixing them up? Totally missed the mark?
also, if you disagree with my original definitions, and want to truely educate me, you'd better have references that check out. Like online textbooks, mabye...
Thank you very much. This will take some searching for a link I think and I respect someone that dedicated to helping out another philosopher! Cheers!
2006-10-12
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