Sardar S. answered • 02/01/22
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One way that someone might justify and argue a perspective in philosophy is to give good reasons for this perspective. A reason can be considered a good reason if it if it is grounded in beliefs that we might consider obviously true. So, for example, someone might say that murder is wrong and one reason that this person can put forward for thinking that murder is wrong is that all living things are inherently valuable and ought not to be die prematurely.
For your second question, I think it is certainly possible that something could be morally right, but ethically wrong. However, to see how this might be so, I think we must clarify the distinction between morality and ethics. Ethics refer to recognized codes of conduct, whereas morality is one particular code of conduct. So, for example, thieves are certainly not moral - they steal stuff - but one might say that they are (or at least, some are) ethical. For instance, a thief may refuse to rat out her fellow thieves or she might refuse to steal from the poor. She is adhering to a code of conduct - probably, called "honor among thieves" - but this code isn't a moral one, because morality prescribes that stealing is wrong, no matter what. So, continuing with the thief example, ratting out one's fellow thieves might be morally right, but it's ethically wrong, according to the code of conduct that thieves subscribe to. This distinction between morality and ethics was drawn by twentieth century British philosopher, Bernard Williams.
