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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 367 559 SO 023 695 AUTHOR Purcell, Royal TITLE Ethics, Morality, and Mores. REPORT NO ISBN-0-933189-01-X PUB DATE 86 NOTE 192p. AVAILABLE FROMRoyal Purcell, 806 West Seccnd Street, Bloomington, IN 47401 ($9.95). PUB TYPE Books (010) Viewpoints (Opinion/Position Papers, Essays, etc.) (120) Reports Evaluative/Feasibility (142) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Ethical Instruction; *Ethics; *Individual Development; *Moral Values; *Social Values IDENTIFIERS *Moral Behavior ABSTRACT It is possible to approach, but not to achieve, the goal of perfection. To the three traditional philosophical values of truth, goodness, and beauty it is appropriate to append the important values of wisdom, humanness, and grace. Among the resources available toward the perfection of behavior are ethics, morality, and mores. The first chapter of this document introduces a structured approach to the subject of ethics, morality, and mores. Chapter 2 defines principal terms and chapter 3 gives reasons for the importance of ethics, morality, and mores. The fourth chapter discusses the content of the three subjects and synthesizes their concepts. Chapter 5 attempts to get at the dynamics of ethics and morality, while the sixth chapter provides a brief historical summary. Separately, the seventh chapter records various efforts to make the approach to ethics more scientific. Chapter 8 underlines the enjoyment of life, suggesting that the "good life" emphasizes the individual, "quality of life" emphasizes the group, and "proper life" emphasizes the culture. In the ninth chapter is a summary of conclusions about personal behavior, findings, understanding, and enjoyment. The book represents an attempt to combine technical accuracy with clarity of presentation. 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(49 .tie:t'f:'... ...4!*..ti!;, 'a t. ...: 1: .",f 4 t" ..sitZ*1:: AIIM.IMAI 41 ./..);..rtC.:. 44 .- \ 41. 2 Y AYAILABLE M4111.0..M.Z. *IV:4:re RA %. illiWill.AI ETHICS, MORALITY, AND MORES This book is an interesting and useful compendium and analysis of concepts pertaining to the sub)ects of its title Ethics. Moral- ity. and Mores. It provides a stimulant to thinking about widely used and usually poorly defined terms. The book should help readers be a little wiser about what they read or hear in the news media and in assessing their own viewpoints on behavior. LyntonK. Caldwell.political and environmental scientist Ethics, Morality, and Mores Royal Purcell Royal Purcell, Publisher Bloomington, Indiana 4 Dedicated to lay wife Frances Alice Purcell Copy Tight ID 1986 by Royal Purcell. All rights reserved. For information, contact Royal Purcell, 806 West Second Street, Bloomington IN 47401 (SAN 691-7224). Printed in the United States of America. Publisher's Cataloging in Publication (CIP) Data Purcell, Royal Ethics, Moralitw, and Mores. Includes tables and inde;,.178 m. 1. Conduct of life. 2. Ethics. 3. Moral education. 4. Perfection (Philosophy) I. Title. Online Computer Library Center (OCLC): B31581.2.P87 Dewey Decimal Classification amp: 170 Pu International Standard Book Number (ISBN): 0-933189-01-X Acknowledgments Special tribute is here given to authors and educators William S. Sahakian (1921- )and Lawrence Kohlberg (1927- ). These two scholars have shown remarkable insight into their Particular subjects and have presented their viewpoints def tly in their writ- ings. Notably. Sahakian has highlighted the individual and Kohlberg has encompassed the social. Sahakian's Ethics: An Introduction to Theories and Problems (New York: Barnes and Noble Books, a Divison of Harper and Row. Publish- ers. 1974), History of Philosophy (New York: Barnes and Noble Books. a Division of Harper and Row. Publishers,1968). and Systems of Ethics and Value Theory (New York: Philosophical Library. 1963) pro- vide clarification about the subject of ethics, fullness of knowl- edge about historicalcontributionstoethics,andclearnessof presentation about ethical issues. A professor both of philosophy and of psychology. Sahakian has also written books dealing with psychology and social psychology. He has personally commented that "ajoy of living is a concomitant of a sense of achievement and self -f ulf illment." On the subjectofmorality, thedistinctive contributions by Kohlberg have been to amplify biologist-psychologist Jean Piaget's two stages of moral judgment into six stages of moral development and to probe interdisciplinarily the importance of moral judgment. Many resultsofKohlberg'sexemplary concentrationandofhis extensive research have been gathered into The Philosophy of Moral Development, Moral Stages and the Idea of Justice (San Francisco CA: Harper and Row, Publishers. 1981) and The Psychology of Moral Development,The Nature andValidity of Morality Stages (San Francisco CA: Harper and Row. Publishers. 1984). Appreciation is here further expressed for use of the extensive holdings of the Indiana University library system and of the out- standing reference resources of the Monroe County Public Library located in Bloomington, Indiana. Grateful acknowledgment, moreover, isgiven on the next pagef or specific permissions to quote en- lightening comments from many excellent writers about the subjects of ethics, morality, and mores. Peter A. Angeles. Dictionary of Philosophy, C 1.981. Barnes and No- ble Books, a Division of Harper and Row, Publishers. By permission. John Biesanz and Mavis Biesanz, Introduction to Sociology, pp. 48, 62, 65, 68, 78, 79, 80, 83, C 1969, Prentice-Hall. By permission. Luther J. Sink ley, Contemporary Ethical Theories, C 1961, Citadel. Press. By permission. Angus Campbell, The Sense of Well-Being in America. Recent Pat- terns and Trends, C 1981, McGraw-Hill Book Company. By permission. Paul Edwards and Arthur Pap, ed., AModern Introduction to Philosophy,rev. ed.. C 1965, Free Press. By permission. William K. Frankena,Ethics.2nded., © 1973, Prentice-Hail. By permission. Richard M. Gula. What Are They Saying about Moral Norms?,CI 1982, Pau list Press. By permission. Thomas E. Hill.Ethicsin Theory and Practice. C 1956, Thomas Y. Crowell. By permission Harper and Row, Publishers. John Hospers. Human Conduct. Problems of Ethics, short ed., © 1972, 2nd ed., C 1982. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. By permission. John Kekes."Happiness." Mind, gl 1982. Blackwell Publisher. By permission. Alan L. Lockwood, Values Education and the Study of Other Cul- tures. © 1976. National Education Association. By permission. Robert Stewart McElhinney and Henry Lester Smith, Personality and Character Building, ED 1942, Light and Lif e Press. By permission. Harry C.McKown. Character Education. © 1935, McGraw-Hill Book Company. By permission. Francis E. Merrill, Society and Culture, An Introduction to Sociology,3rd ed., pp. 78, 109. 110. 114, 115. 120, 195. © 1965, Prentice-Hall. By permission. Nicholas Rescher. The Coherence Theory of Truth, © 1982. Uni- versity Press of America. By permission. GeraldRunkle.Ethics: An Examination of Contemporary Moral Problems, C 1982. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. By permission. Marcus G. Singer. "Ethics," Academic American Encyclopedia, 1983, Grolier. By permission. Paul W. Taylor. ed., Problems of Moral Philosophy, An Introduction to Ethics, C 1967, Dickenson Publishing Company. By permission Wads- worth Publishing Company. Radoslav A. 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