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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Oxford English Dictionary Ethics and Morals and Radio Lab
The Oxford English Dictionary (1989) seems to show that, from the earliest times, the words had very similar meanings.
"Ethic" as a noun has the senses "The science of morals" and "A scheme of moral science", and these are treated as parts (a) and (b) of a single meaning. The earliest citation is from 1387.
"Ethics" (in the plural) divides into a number of meanings. The sense of "The science of morals; the department of study concerned with the principles of human duty" dates from 1602. The sense of "The moral principles or system of a particular leader or school of thought" dates from 1651.
"Morality" in the sense of "The doctrine or system concerned with conduct or duty; moral science" dates from 1449. In the sense of "Moral conduct; usually, good moral conduct; behaviour conformed to the moral law; moral virtue" it dates to 1609.
And finally, "morals" in the sense of "Moral habits or conduct; habits of life in regard to right and wrong conduct" dates to 1613. And the sense of "Moral science; moral doctrine; ethics" is said now to be rare, but dates at least as far back as 1651.
I personally find this to be unhelpful in sorting this out
Thus I turn to my favorite internet source that I can share with you
the Stanford Encyclopedia
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
upon further reading I guess it depends on which camp you like as to how you define morality and ethics. So I guess as the semester goes on we will figure out where we stand.
I am going to play a radiolab podcast on the way to the prison for us tomorrow. Should shake things up a bit more in terms of making things more interesting...
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2009/nov/16/killing-babies-saving-the-world/
http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/13/
"Ethic" as a noun has the senses "The science of morals" and "A scheme of moral science", and these are treated as parts (a) and (b) of a single meaning. The earliest citation is from 1387.
"Ethics" (in the plural) divides into a number of meanings. The sense of "The science of morals; the department of study concerned with the principles of human duty" dates from 1602. The sense of "The moral principles or system of a particular leader or school of thought" dates from 1651.
"Morality" in the sense of "The doctrine or system concerned with conduct or duty; moral science" dates from 1449. In the sense of "Moral conduct; usually, good moral conduct; behaviour conformed to the moral law; moral virtue" it dates to 1609.
And finally, "morals" in the sense of "Moral habits or conduct; habits of life in regard to right and wrong conduct" dates to 1613. And the sense of "Moral science; moral doctrine; ethics" is said now to be rare, but dates at least as far back as 1651.
I personally find this to be unhelpful in sorting this out
Thus I turn to my favorite internet source that I can share with you
the Stanford Encyclopedia
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
upon further reading I guess it depends on which camp you like as to how you define morality and ethics. So I guess as the semester goes on we will figure out where we stand.
I am going to play a radiolab podcast on the way to the prison for us tomorrow. Should shake things up a bit more in terms of making things more interesting...
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2009/nov/16/killing-babies-saving-the-world/
http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/13/
Monday, September 6, 2010
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