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Technical terms sometimes have definitions, but the definitions are highly context-dependent. Philosophy is particularly notorious for people not agreeing on th
by jltsiren 3y ago
Technical terms sometimes have definitions, but the definitions are highly context-dependent. Philosophy is particularly notorious for people not agreeing on the terminology and definitions, or even on whether there is any value in having definitions.
Historically, "morals" was more or less Cicero's translation for "ethics". That's probably the clearest distinction between the terms you can find.
- eikenberry 3y agoI haven't dipped my toe into academic ethics in a number of years, but I very clearly remember it was a big thing among ethics philosophy people of the time to stress that ethics in philosophy was the study of ethical systems (differing from morality in the way the previous post described). Perhaps this was a dominant school of thought at the time, but the profs and literature we studied both where pretty clear about this.