ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the concept of morality. In the 1970s, John Mackie asked the question whether morality is invented or discovered. It is the task of Ethics as an academic discipline to study how the point or object of morality can be fulfilled; and ways of negotiating these conflicts of interest by proposing principles by which to resolve them. The relationship between ethics and law is indeed complicated. The importance of applied ethics first came to the forefront in a medical context, where expanding commitments to human rights and developments in technology gave rise to challenging ethical issues related. Applied ethics, is, of course, by no means confined to health care and bioethics. It is tempting to think that in order for ethics to be applied, there must be something such as a theory to apply, which is indeed one possible model of applied ethics. Antitheorists argue the desirability of doing applied ethics without theory.
