Talk:Ethics

---

This Article was the WikiProject Philosophy Collaboration of the Month for September 2005 - Vote for next month's collaboration

---

Talk:Ethics/Archive Talk:Ethics/Archive 2

---

236.87 was done. Perhaps it should be reverted, there seems to be less information now? --Paraphelion 06:27, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ethics vs. politics vs. religion vs. practice

I wonder if this should be adapted slightly to take account of the (reasonably popular) suggestion in moral philosophy that rights are a misleading way of characterising morality?

Normative ethics

I've also never come accross the distinction in Normative Ethics between Theories of Conduct and Theories of value; it seems to me that the former is bound to be based on the latter: whether or not your conduct is "good" depends upon which/what value(s) you associate with "good"?

Help needed on a parallel Ethics article

Unfortunately, someone set up an article parallel to this article on Ethics, in violation of Wikipedia policy. That parallel article violated NPOV by acting as a blog for one man's personal views, a person that also happens to be hard-banned user. Please see Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Simple view of ethics and morals
Thanks for your time. RK 20:20, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

announcing policy proposal

This is just to inform people that I want Wikipedia to accept a general policy that BC and AD represent a Christian Point of View and should be used only when they are appropriate, that is, in the context of expressing or providing an account of a Christian point of view. In other contexts, I argue that they violate our NPOV policy and we should use BCE and CE instead. See Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate for the detailed proposal. Slrubenstein | Talk 22:55, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Existentialism

I have changed the article about Jean-Paul Sartre. Sure, he was not alone when developping existentialism, but the best definition of it is his book "L'existentialisme est un humanisme". No other philosopher had ever defined it really.

Is this a reason to say he was the only existentialist ? Sure not. Can he be considered THE major existentialist ? Definitely.

--213.103.59.235 11:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Series

Anyone think we should create a Series/Guide to all the articles to do with ethics, rather like the way Green_politics is done? Anybody know how to do this?

What about Kierkegaard? Could he not also be called THE existentialist? Surely he could.

Series

Anyone think we should create a Series/Guide to all the articles to do with ethics, rather like the way Green_politics is done? Anybody know how to do this?

Science's need for ethics

I'm of the opinion that the claims made in the article about the importance of ethics in actual sciences, such as biology and ecology are a bit misleading, and are trying to turn fields such as bioethics into actual science. Claiming that bioethics is science is akin to claiming that the universe cares what our current opinions are (see naturalistic fallacy, is-ought problem). Rather than state that ethics is "important" to the scientific fields, it might be better to state that ethics "has been extended" into these fields. --brian0918™ 19:53, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Critique

Section by section:

Intro: Does not summarise the article.

History: just a list of names. Not really distinct from the history of western philosophy - so what is the point of having this section?

Definitions: "at least five" - then lists six.

Ethics in religion: no more than a link - remove it? Summarise the main articles?

Ethics in health care: Perhaps divide into ethics and medical ethics with summaries of main articles?

Ethics in politics: no such thing... Perhaps link to Machiavelli?

Ethics by case: needs some serious work - is their a main article for this to link to?

Is ethics futile: what purpose has this section? perhaps move etymology to top?

Origins: original research? Ethology as animal ethics? strange stuff, I think.

Banno 11:56, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Comments on critique from a non-english user: history: necessary but needs a total revision and ampliation

major theories: please, not write just links to article, you could add a brief definition of each one

futile: agree with banno

why origins is so far from history?

I agree that the history section continues to need major work but it remains a necessary part of the article. I think that the origins section could be brought further up the article (perhaps content merged with history) The ethics by case section is unclear. Perhaps it should be rewritten as ethics in law (in keeping with other headings) and just contain a summary of casuistry for which there is already a well developed article. --Vincej 15:45, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Online External review Dec 17 2005

User:Perspective16 notes that Michael Cook has unfavorably characterized this article. --Ancheta Wis 01:07, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation link to Scientology Ethics

I intend to revert the removal of the Ethics (Scientology) link, probably through a proper, full disambiguation page linked from this article, as per Wikipedia disambiguation guidelines. The removal of the link did not include a reason. --Davidstrauss 04:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

review of consequentialism

I have been working for a couple of months on Consequentialism and recently submitted it for peer review. If anyone here can offer me any advice as to how to proceed with this article, I would appreciate it greatly. Ig0774 01:31, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

moral problems

We are faced with moral problems on a daily basis: Is 30 dollars enough to charge? Is abortion justified under certain circumstances? Should the doctor lie to Grandma about her heart condition? When we think about these things, we usually draw on moral rules that govern our lives. Whether they are rules about business transactions, the value of human life, or simply telling the truth. These rules depend upon certtain principles, and these principles have their basis in the Theological. We can trace almost any ethic to biblical material on morality. The Ten Commandments are basically moral rules for living and behaving responsibility, the sanctity of life, the marriage relationship, and the responsibility of telling the truth. Several applications take place in the book of Exodus. The moral law was the standard of the kind of society that existed in the Old Testament. It's remnant exists in our society today. Moral principles are all inclusive concepts not just applicable to the particular kinds of activities as in Exodus, but universally to every kind of involvement whatever that may be.

ETHICS as a Methodology

ETHICS is the name of a computer science Analysis and Design methodology. Further disambiguation required?

BUSINESS ETHICS

There are many topics related to business ethics those I think should be discussed here.

Business man - Customer Ethics

Business man - Employee Relations

etc I am not good at this.. just thought this could be discussed

fsds --

? Add Ethical Consumerism to the see also list 88.109.152.209 00:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)