Identify the characteristics of the system of ethics known as formalism

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Identify the characteristics of the system of ethics known as formalism

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Gideon Mills · Answer 1

Ethical formalism is a way of describing moral judgement based on logical concepts as opposed to their content.

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Ethical formalism is a way of describing moral judgement based on logical concepts as opposed to their content. Logic generally includes laws and universal authorization while content defines what will improve the human well-being.

Formalism has the following characteristics;

1. Formalism as a system of ethics is insist that if something is wrong or right, it is absolute and doesn't depend on the conditions. Even though conditions might vary. That is why formalism can at times be defined as an absolutist system since it doesn't consider the changing conditions with each condition.

2. Ethical formalism has a relationship with formal ethics in that they are identical but differ in the sense that formal ethics is incomplete by intention. An example is that while some universal laws that is a function of ethical formalism are universally accepted even by the system of formal ethics, the formal ethics still view these features as necessary but inadequate.