Open AccessEthics and morality
Author(s) -
Jovan Babić
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo0802035b
Subject(s) - morality , encyclopedia , scope (computer science) , democracy , subject (documents) , politics , sociology , epistemology , social science , meta ethics , information ethics , political philosophy , law , political science , philosophy , computer science , library science , programming language
The article is an encyclopedia item prepared for an Encyclopedia of Democracy, forthcoming in Službeni Glasnik, Belgrade, in collaboration with the School for Political Sciences at Belgrade University. The main goal in the article is to develop a definition of the morality as the subject of study for ethics, a part of philosophy dealing with the nature and the scope of possible application of morality as a specific evaluational criterion. Some basic features of this specificity have been explored, and a list of ethical theories have been briefly analyzed, two of them in some more details. A squelch of a possible connection between ethics and democracy has been given at the very end of the article