FUNDAMENTAL DISCOURSE ON MORAL PHILOSOPHY

This paper seeks to examine the fundamental elements upon which issues and discourses in Ethics as a core area of philosophy are discussed. The issues as it were have been analyzed as fundamental because they are the principles upon which other issues can be interpreted as right or wrong, good or bad. These fundamental items form what can be regarded as the metaphysics of Ethics. This forms the main structure of metaethics as one of the divisions of Ethics. The paper develops by drawing the evolution of ethics from community or institution to the self or individual. Thus, the subject matter of ethics as discussed in this paper is the human person or individual. It elicits further that when the self is invoked, issues of freedom, autonomy and morality are provoked. With morality, the issue of judgment is implicated and discussed. The paper thus, argues that morality, good or bad are not geographically-bound but universal. It further concludes that a new moral order needs to be etched from the relativism that have webbed moral actions and decisions from an hitherto wrong and mistaken foundation of ethics. This moral order seeks to establish that morality must go beyond the limitations of personal judgment and authority but on universal principles that are open and accessible by the commonality and universality of human reason. This is the basis for a new moral order.