Chapter 3
Chapter 3
MORALITY
Morals
-refers to human behavior where morality is the
practical activity and, ethics describes the
theoretical, systematic, and rational reflection
upon that human behavior. (Churchill, 1982)
Moral experience begins with moral
consciousness or moral sense. In fact moral
consciousness and moral experience are used
as synonyms by many.
LESSON 1: NATURE
OF MORALITY AND
THE IMPORTANCE
OF RULES
I. MAIN FEATURES OF
MORALITY
O Part of any theory, whether about morality or
something else, is to describe the subject
matter by listing certain features or
characteristics of the subject that makes it
distinct and special. This will, in a way, give a
clearer picture as to what the whole subject is
really about.
The following list by Ellin (1995), though not
exhaustive, provides a through grounding of the
subject:
1. Morality is binding on those to whom it applies.
-this means that if some principle is part of the
morality, then the people to whom the morality
applies should obey that principle.