Baltimore Philosophy Discussion: Ethics & Morality

This meeting will be a discussion about ethics and morality. In most philosophical contexts, these two terms are interchangeable, and they concern good and evil, right and wrong. They refer to what people should or ought to do or how the world should be.

Warning: Any absence without canceling at least 24 hours beforehand will result in the offender being barred from future Baltimore discussions.

Optional Reading:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-theory/

Discussion Questions:
1. What is the source of morality?
2. How does morality bind agents? Can it have prescriptive or normative "force"?
3. Can ethical considerations be outweighed such that an unethical act can still be justified? Perhaps by pragmatic or other considerations?
4. What is the link between morality and rationality?
5. How can moral disagreement be explained when other fields such as math and science have much less disagreement? Is morality not objective? Or are there just greater epistemological difficulties with morality than in other fields?