ETHICS AND MORALITY Basic Ethical Concepts E

ETHICS AND MORALITY Category: Basic Ethical Concepts . E specially in everyday language, the dis- tinction between the terms ETHICS ' and MORALITY ' is not always clear. Even in some questions of good life' are tied to an evaluati- on of what is good and are answered in the form of recommendations how to achieve philosophical texts both are used synony- that goal, norms or principles of moral right- mously, while others seem to draw a clear ness generate imperatives. distinction between them. Historically, the . term ETHICS ' comes from Greek ethos which Today it is common to separate ETHICS into means the customs, habits and mores of peo- three sub-branches: 1. descriptive ETHICS , 2. ple. MORALITY ' is derived from Latin mos, mo- metaethics and 3. normative ETHICS : ris which denotes basically the same; it was 1. Descriptive ETHICS aims at empirically introduced by Cicero as an equivalent to the and precisely mapping existing MORALITY or Greek ethos. moralities within communities and is there- For the sake of clarity we assume as a stan- fore linked to the social sciences.

in the ethical arena and its definition is the most blurred of all. The Greek meta means after or beyond and indicates that the object of metaethical studies is morality and ethics itself. The aim is to better understand the lo-gical, semantic and pragmatic structures of moral and ethical argumentation as such, their origin and meaning.

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