Ethics

Connections List
 * View Subjects
 * Def Good and Evil
 * Meaning of life
 * Morals - explanatory
 * Value System

Anything that has to do with "should"

Topics
 * Ethical behavioral systems
 * Source of ethics, mild overlap with epistemology but epistemology is separate

Major ethical theories (non exclusive)
 * Egosim (may manifest as evil or good, hedonism)
 * Utilitariansim (w/relative values)
 * Kantian (limited only by absurdity)
 * Religious (given by higher powers)

Possible sources of morality. Most from "Handbook of Christian Apologetics"
 * Unrelated - then we have an unjust God and unbased morality (unless it is somehow based on something else)
 * God decides morality - makes a fickle morality
 * God is following morality - puts something above God
 * Gods natural is moral and does not change - this works fine
 * There are no morals
 * Morality is relative - then we can't control others, it's just a free for all justified killing, OR in the case of a kill act e.g. it is moral for me the killer but not for you the slain, so is it absolutely moral? I guess since the slain did not make a decision, it could be moral. But from a commonsense perspective there is again, no morality.
 * Society or parents or some individual or group - morality is again fickle and could conflict.
 * Evolution/society, morality is calculated best survival. This is actually a pretty robust view I think. However it pretty much removes the "should" from morality, it's just a calculation. Why should we seek the survival of our own species? This is kindof an idolization of scientific or evolutionary progress. Why should we seek progress?