ARE MORAL CODES MORAL? Q&A: —“Are moral codes moral?”—Fredrick George Welfar

ARE MORAL CODES MORAL?

Q&A: —“Are moral codes moral?”—Fredrick George Welfare

A difference between normative, descriptive, and necessary ethics.

NEGATIVA: Necessary ethics are moral (true),

EXISTENTIAL: Descriptive (how they are practiced) exist.

POSITIVA: Normative ethics (how we imagine they should be practiced).(theoretical)

This terminology is confusing because existential ethics are in evidence as ‘norms’, and normative ethics are not those that are practiced as norms, but the study of what should perhaps be practiced as norms. I prefer “Necessary, Descriptive, and Theoretical.”

To make mattes worse, existing ethical systems (norms) consist of portfolio of various ‘contracts’, any provision of which my be immoral but in concert, when practiced produce moral ends (or not). The same goes for the combination of moral provisions, can produce immoral ends (although this is harder.)