Moral Matrix

Field

Definition

Historical Developments

Schools Of Thought

Key Contributors

Principal Issues

Moral/Social

A quest on how people should act and conduct themselves in a way that creates the greatest good and a life worth living that creates the most happiness. Morality has a role in finding harmony between all the different members of society.

• Introduction of moral codes-customary standards of acceptable and unaccptable conduct.
• Aristotle focused on habit and repetition  and natural growth or evolution which over time becomes natural.
• Only in the 19th century did moral development take the research  toward the cognitive-develomental approach and rejected the traditional moral developments.

• Consequentialist
• Deontological(Duty-based)
• Virtue

• Aristotle
• Kant
• Epicurus
• Socates
• Plato

• How are people supposed to act?
• What is right socially and personally?
• What does right mean?

Political

The study of the fundamental questions reguarding government, state, liberty, justice, and how the legal code should be enforced

• John Locke’s ideas on Liberalism and Libertarianism is prevelant in the Decleration of Independence.
• Communism, taking idealogy from Nationalism, Fascism, an d totalitarianism started to form in Italy and Nazi Germany.
• The Feminist movement developed the 60s and 70s, developed around gender inequalities and rights for women.

• Liberalism
• Conservatism
• Socialism
• Centeral Ownership

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Cicero

• What should a persons relationship be to society?
• What standards and justices are appropriate for society to live in harmony?
• What is a proper life to live amongst people?