[lit-ideas] Re: Euthyphro
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:48:43 -0330
Erin or Phil, could you help RP out? Habermas in a nutshell? My paper is still
going nowhere and the deadline date for submission looms ominously close. I
might have to skip Christmas. I'm so perturbed I got a Norwegian foot-massager
to relax my nerves. Works great but my wife doesn't approve of her.
Cheers, Walter
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> Julie asks:
>
> > Are you familiar with a very dated (copyright 1957) book "Ethics", by A.
> C.
> > Ewing? (It was still being used in University classes in the 1980's...)
> If
> > so, what do you think about it? And what current books on the subject
> would
> > you recommend? "Ethics" attempts to address the question of where a
> moral
> > system or a system of ethics comes from or arises. When I was studying
> such
> > things, when the dinosaurs roamed the earth, there was a very cut and
> dried
> > distinction made between "ethics" and "morality". Is that still the case
> in
> > current philo?
>
> I'm not familiar with Ewing's book or his views. The books wasn't used by
> anybody at the places I've taught (a really weak inductive argument for its
> not
> being widely used or talked about).
>
> I wonder what the 'very cut and dried' distinction between ethics and
> morality
> that you once knew was? I'm sure that almost all Anglo-American philosophy
> departments offer a course called 'Ethics,' 'Advanced Ethics,' (or at
> Toronto,
> 'Extreme Ethics.') These courses deal with moral issues. ('Business Ethics,'
> 'Medical Ethics,' and so on are largely bogus courses that deal with moral
> problems allegedly unique to these fields.) The distinction between ethics
> and
> morality is primarily linguistic, i.e., it's a matter of usage and
> preference.
>
> Walter thinks, apparently, that there's a real metaphysical difference
> between
> ethics and morality, but I'm not so sure. It's 'unethical' for a legal
> guardian
> to appropriate her ward's funds for her personal use. It's also morally
> wrong,
> one would think.
>
> > 'Ethics'-- 'see moral philosophy.'
> > (From The Oxford Companion to Philosophy)
>
> Robert Paul
> reed.edu
>
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