Restaurant Ethics

The First Moral Language is a language of background beliefs. It is what we start with in the vast and sometimes complicated process that is decision making. The First Moral Language gives us a framework which helps us fine tune and develop a more sophisticated system for solving ethical dilemmas. It is the first step in a process that allows us to feel confident and positive about the ethical decisions we make on a daily basis. Determining the background beliefs as an individual can help understand why we make decisions on ethical and moral issues. Background beliefs help us determine what is right and wrong in our own terms. If personal background beliefs are not understood the individual will have trouble understanding society and the decisions that are made in world. Discovering ones background beliefs in the first moral language can be a difficult task because most of these are hardwired to the individual and rarely thought about and abstract. In order to discover these beliefs one will have to take time to analyze their metaphysical world which is a difficult task. The metaphysical world has to deal with what Freud considered to be the id and an example of this would be ones fight or flight response that is considered a gut instinct. Once the first moral language and background beliefs are derived one can begin to start the process to understand the two other moral languages.

The backbone of the Second Moral Language comes from three questions we must begin to ask ourselves when faced with an ethical dilemma. Who am I? Who am I becoming? Who do I want to become? Until we can answer these questions truthfully we will never truly be able to make a sound ethical or moral decision. The Second Moral Language allows us to get to a point where we can make a much more well thought out decision to an ethical dilemma. The Second Moral Language gives us the freedom of bringing our own life experiences into the decision making process. In this...