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Ethics, Morality, Values, Principles and Beliefs

In: Speaking Management

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  • Stephen Keith McGrath

    (University of Southern Queensland)

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This chapter documents a successful test of the definitional refining method outlined in Chap. 10 with most surprising implications. Mutually consistent, non-overlapping definitions are developed for a group of related ethical terms, namely ethics, values, morals, principles and beliefs. These definitions have the capacity to accommodate diametrically opposed opinions of what is moral or ethical. This leads to the conclusion that much prior debate about ethics has simply constituted a futile attempt to render relative matters absolute. This realisation offers an understanding of how confusion and debate can have occurred around the subject for thousands of years. It also indicates that lack of transparency in resolving the agreed meaning of contested conceptual terms is itself a significant ethical issue.

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  • Stephen Keith McGrath, 2021. "Ethics, Morality, Values, Principles and Beliefs," Springer Books, in: Speaking Management, chapter 0, pages 197-244, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-2213-7_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-2213-7_13
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