COMM 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Golden Rule, Categorical Imperative, Meta-Ethics

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What media do and what we do with media. Questions about right and wrong = ethics. Morality = the rules morals that guide the actions of a individual group or collectivity - concerned primarily with questions of right and wrong. Ethics = analysis, evaluations and sometimes the promotion of moral rules of good conduct to guide ones actions. Ethics is the study of the what to do . Doing something in a certain way says something and communicates values. This is done to provide those institutions or societies with sets of norms or guidelines that govern conduct (think: journalist objectivity) come up with norms. Because there are certain things that are true for everyone that we should uphold (pleasure over pain) Because being moral is something that is inherent in human nature and that being good is something we are naturally inclines to act upon. But there is also this question .

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