1. What is Ethics? Peter Singer and the Morality/Ethics Distinction
Shane J. Ralston, Ph.D.
Penn State - World Campus
University of Maine - Orono

2. Peter Singer Australian ethicist Princeton controversy
“About Ethics” (in Practical Ethics, reprinted in Writings on an Ethical Life)

3. What Ethics is Not Set of prohibitions concerned with sex
Ideal system - good in theory, bad in practice
Intelligible only with reference to religion
Relative or subjective

4. What Ethics Is What is the nature of ethics?
Two conflated distinctions
Giving reasons for or justifying one’s ethical standards
Thought experiment

5. Conclusion The upshot of Singer’s utilitarianism
Morality versus ethics
Ethics as a form of critical thinking