Ethics

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Your N.A.M. is applicable to Deontology and Teleology. Each is a complete Ethical systems. (I could have also used "Moral Code") I think perhaps that terms we were taught are slightly different. I was not taught N.A.M. I was taught Moral/Ethics/Meta-Ethics. I think though, we were taught the same thing but different terms were used by our profs.

Virtue Ethics, as I was taught, is one of the very few Ethical systems that is neither Deontology nor Teleology. Though, it is more closely related to Deontology than Teleology. Social Contract is another "independent" Ethical System.

Some examples of Teleology:

1. Egotistic Hedonism
2. Hedonism
3. Utilitarianism

Some examples of Deontology:

1. Religion
2. "Just" Authority (our legal system and the Constitution that created it)
3. Reason (Not logic, Logic without Reason is stupid)

And yes Troy, this is the type of conversation I love. It's why I finally, after 23 years of living in the world, went to college for the first time.

Somehow I missed this reply. Not that I have anything to add as I agree with/understand/stood what your saying here, just thought I'd poke my head in.

I'm full of possible conclusions to the ethical questions, just typing them all out at the moment in a coherent manner isn't in the cards.