Ethics is more about defending our decision based upon some ethicalprinciples, rather than arriving at just a final decision
Morality
What's good? What makes something right? What we ought to do?
Ethics
A system or set of beliefs people embrace to identify what is good and bad. We don't question the validity of these beliefs (e.g. truth is preferable over falsehood).
Law
What are we required to do?
Ethics is an effort to reason our way through a dilemma, a deliberation to justify doing or not doing something when our values and belief system clash
Twin Goals of Ethics
Normative (What we ought to do?)
Epistemic completeness (Why we should do it?)
Ethics
It's about the journey, not the destination
Trust your gut but use your brain
The art of uneasy compromise
Importance of Studying Ethics
Stimulating moral imagination
Recognizing ethical issues
Developing analytical skills
Eliciting a sense of moralobligation and personalresponsibility
Tolerating disagreements
There are two schools of thought on the importance of studying ethics: Cynical View and Optimistic View
The study of ethics should result in at least morally defensible decisions even if those decisions prove to be unpopular, and there are not always right or wrong answers, but there should always be "well-reasoned" ones
