Moral Choices, ch. 1

This chapter sets out to introduce why a person should study ethics. He sites many reasons, the most powerful for me being in the area of technology and education. With respect to education, he says "many are also realizing that the value-neutral approach to education at all levels is not working, and some even suggest that such value neutrality is impossible." One key distinction that Rae made was between ethics and morals. Morality refers to the actual content of right and wrong and ethics refers to the process of determining right and wrong. I wonder if morality is to truth as ethics is to knowledge. From here, Rae sets out some systems of ethics to frame the future chapters.