HUMAN ETHICS

Human Ethics



Human ethics

Part I: Briefly describes how following religious system defines “right/moral” and “happiness”.

Psychological Egoism

The happiness defined by psychological egoism is a state of addressing the needs at the physiological level. The nehe addressed them at the psychological levels. Psychological egoism did not view the needs as innate, instead it views them as acquired. The concept of needs is broadly interpreted in this approach, and this can be seen in definition of need that is often cited by psychological egoism.

Ethical Egoism

In ethical egoism happiness and moral right are the state which is supported by the ethical basis and need is a construct (a convenient fiction or hypothetical concept) that stands for a force (the physico-chemical nature of which is unknown) in the brain region, a force that organizes perception, apperception, intellection, conation and action in such a way as to transform in a certain direction an existing, unsatisfying situation. (Murray, 1938, pp. 123-124)

Utilitarianism

In utilitarianism the terms like happiness and moral right could be easily substituted for need without losing any meaning in this definition because this definition is very broad. According to this definition, almost anything that causes organisms to move in order to perform some actions is a need.

Deontological Ethics

The happiness and moral right in deontological ethics is defined as the inclusion of needs and state of inner statisfaction based on the ethics of society and man. The psychological needs such as acquisitiveness, abasement and dominance has highlighted this fact. These types of reasons can lead to energize actions but they cannot be called as needs in either the Self Determination

Buddhism

The happiness and moral right in buddhism is related with the enlightenment of one's soul and body. In buddhism the theory or the sense of moral right and happiness specifies the nutriments that are essential for an organism for functioning healthy and enlightened life.

Hinduism

In hinduism the brief description of happiness and moral right is defined through obedience of several Gods and idols. In this regard the concept of obeying many gods is not easy to understand, especially when it comes to the difference in laws provided by two different school of thoughts. In Hinduism an array of salient motives is represented in the needs of happiness and moral right. The pursuit of that array of salient motives may or may not conduce to optimal functioning of moral right and happiness. The salient motives are such motives that are responsible for reflecting the dynamics of their transmission and ambient social values.

Confucianism

In confucianism the moral right and happiness is quite different from the rest of the world. The basic individual differences in need strength such as those that are for power, achievement and affiliation have got the focus of empirical studies that are done in the tradition of the pursuit of happiness and moral right.

Taoism

In Taoism the focus of questions and their thematic methods of assessment of one's life is on individual differences which defines the basic happiness and moral right of any human ...