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A 4 page overview of the numerous ethical issues which arrived in the time period spanning Columbus’ arrival in this so-called “New World” and the American Civil War. The author defines ethics and demonstrates (using the manner Europeans treated the land and peoples they encountered in the Americas, the issue of slavery, and finally the issue of the draft in the Civil War) that the interpretation of the rightness or wrongness of a particular issue varies according to the perspective of the people in question. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPethIss.rtf
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within the time period extending between Columbus arrival in the Americas and the American Civil War which have resounding ethical implications. The European treatment of the land and peoples
they encountered in the so-called "New World" presents two ethical dilemmas while the issues surrounding slavery and even the issue of the draft in the Civil War presents the third
and fourth ethical dilemmas which will be discussed in this paper. To discuss the ethical issues noted above in more detail it is
first necessary to define ethics. While we have a general idea that the term ethics refer to the distinction which exists between right and wrong, this definition is considerably
more complex. It immediately becomes necessary to distinguish the term ethics from a similar term, morality. While many think these terms are interchangeable in meaning, ethics can by
definition be distinguished from morality. The term morality defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves social needs while
ethics concerns itself with conduct in specific cases. Morality then is very broad in scope, while ethics is more narrow, concerning itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain
individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted above might be declared as wrong while ethically either one might be perceived as an acceptable choice.
A number of historians have added to our understanding of this early period in American history as it relates to the topic at
hand. Ewert and Pfister (1991), for example, have explored the motivations of both the European colonists and the Native American in regard to their use of the land.
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