Your new post is loading...
The social world is messy and ethics helps us muddle through. By Arthur Dobrin, DSW...
All of morality aims at the same thing but there are several basic ways to get there. If you prefer, each approach is like a different tool—a hammer, a nail, a level. Using the right tool for the right job makes it easier to do your work and increases the chances that you’ll wind up with a quality product.
If you can grasp the basic ideas of each of the different approaches to ethics, you will be in a better position to make a sound ethical decision.
There are other ways in which moral philosophy and philosophers can be categorized, but establishing ethical theories into their three schools is a useful way to understand ethics.
Read more...
