MECO3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Old Media, New Media, Categorical Imperative

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Media and Communication
• Course: MECO3603
• Professor: Michelle Emily McAuslan

Document Summary

** morals: refer to an individual"s own principles regarding right and wrong. ** ethics: refer to rules provided by an external source e. g codes of conduct. Ethics is a set of tools for reasoning and decision making that can be applied in different situations. Ethics focuses on the voluntary nature od our behaviour and provides categories, principles and exemplars by which it can be. Law deals with the arena of coerced compliance with respect to the minimum maintenance of social stability. Not every moral obligation involves a legal duty: but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation. Ethics: a system of moral principles by which human actions and proposals may be judges good or bad or right or wrong e judged. Ethics: a system of moral principles by which human actions and proposals may be judges good or bad or right or wrong. "codes of ethics" or codes of conduct" can be seen as rules of practice.