Ethics and Morality in Philosophy

Morality has always been an unacknowledged and crucial role in defining ethics. Principles tend to be a virtue that applies only within society and can be distinguished from law, religion, or ethics. Morality in its defining sense can be different from each other, depending on the foundations of the society that claim their morality. Different societies have a different sense of what their moral priority would be like. Their morality can be based on purity and honesty when others concerned with practices. Many philosophers encourage morality, because generally it prevents and avoids harm to any society that is formed into certain groups.

The most interesting notion of the morality comes out in a question whether it is informed through different sources of knowledge.

The history of our world is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas. It is impossible to know the true sense of the present and the aims of the future unless we take a look at the past. There many great minds whose philosophies had a profound effect on western political thought. However, in a discussion of epistemology that informs ethics, it would be wise to consider Hume's, Descartes’, and Camus's theoretical approaches that give us the basic understanding of epistemology and advice on ethical belief.

One of the main positions in ethics is based on empiricist theory of the mind. Hume as one of the empiricists argues that epistemology comes from the sense experience and reason alone cannot be a motive to a will. The idea cannot be innate, but only come from experiences. Human beings do not have to have to rely solely on reason, but only experiences that come from nature. Hume had very particular epistemological principles (sense experience) an...

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...pproval. Moral approval gives one an opportunity to support approved behavior of ourselves or others instead of getting this approval from reason or belief that an action was morally good from the very beginning. Hume is sure that man would not perform a moral action knowing that the action is morally good. However, philosopher forgets that in his assurance of all men feel happiness for any human who is happy and feeling unsatisfied when one sees unhappiness one can determine that the actual feeling of approval can feel pleasant or vice versa. If the emotion of approval itself is pleasant then it came from the innate (the idea that exists in us from birth). This statement is the biggest statement against Hume’s theory that is coming from Rationalists. Interesting to mention that Descartes and Hume both have theories that argues against each other on the subject of