Chapter One: Dr. Frankena

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Chapter One Dr. Frankena

• Sharon Kay Stoll

PEP 570 Ethics in Sport
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Introduction

• Our goal in this session - To understand the
  nature and purpose of morality and moral
  philosophy according to Frankena.

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Topics of Discussion

• An unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates

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Topic One

• According to Socrates what are the requisites
  of ethical thinking
• We ought never to harm anyone
• We ought to keep our promises

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Topic two - The nature of ethics

• Descriptive, empirical
• Normative
• Analytical

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Descriptive Philosophy

• To describe and explain, or...
• To work out a theory of human nature

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Normative ethics

• Asking what is right and why is it right?

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Analytical ethics

• also called critical ethics, or meta-ethics, or
  just ethics.
• it asks epistemological or semantical questions,
  like
• What is the meaning of right or good
• How can ethical or value judgments be made?
• Can they be justified?
• What is the nature of morality?
• What is the difference between moral and
  nonmoral?
• What is the meaning of free will or determinism?

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Topic Three - the nature of morality

• Why is it different from ethics?

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Factors in Morality - p. 9

• 1. Certain forms of judgment are said to have
  moral quality, obligation, or responsibility.
• 2. Possible to give reasons for these judgments.
• 3. Some rules, principles, ideas, and virtues
  can be expressed in more general judgments and
  form a background of knowledge.

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Factors - continued

• 4. Certain ways of feeling accompany these
  judgments and help us act.
• 5. Certain Sanctions of holding responsible,
  praising, and blaming.
• 6. A point of view that is different in other
  types of judging.

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Kinds of normative judgment

• Judgment of moral obligation or deontic judgment.
• Judgments of moral value or aretaic judgments.
• Judgments of nonmoral value.
• Judgments of nonmoral obligation.

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Examples

• I ought to wash my car today.
• I ought to do my homework.
• I ought to tell the truth, even if she doesnt.
• What you did was wrong!
• Coach Smith is a good coach.
• Coach Smith is a good man.

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Examples

• You should go to the rock concert.
• You should wear the skimpy bikini.
• You should honor your word.
• The movie, Rosemarys Baby, would have been a
  better movie without the sex.

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Dr. Frankenas goal...

• A little normative mixed in toward a
  meta-ethical approach.