ETHICS

Historical background on what is ethics?

Historical Background On What Is Ethics?

Introduction

The word “ethics” means the science of morality, an art directing our conduct. This is a branch of philosophy that defines morally-acceptable behavior. Ethics can vary greatly depending on the values ??and culture. Ethics examine the genesis, the essence, and the specifics of morality which reveals its position, importance and role in society. It also reveals the mechanisms of moral regulation of human activity, the criteria for moral progress. Ethics underlie the structure of the moral consciousness of society and the individual analyzes the content and meaning of categories such as good, evil, duty and conscience, honor and dignity, happiness and meaning in life. Thus, ethics is not only a moral theory that studies the nature of the specifics of morality, but of man as a moral subject (Delattre, 2002, pp. 19-23).

According to Aristotle, the goal of ethics is not knowledge at all, and evaluation of actions and their content. Aristotle first proposed ethics as a separate and independent from the philosophy of science. According to Aristotle the main task of ethics is the study of human relations in their most perfect form. This essay analyzes the historical background of ethics that gave rise to its adoption in civics as a morality concept and the arising of its need as an essential criterion for moral values and social acceptance.

Discussion

Ethics is one of the many branches of philosophy that studies things by their causes, the universal and necessary, which is dedicated to the study of human acts, made of both the will and absolute freedom of the individual. All human actions that takes place through the will of the person who is absent from freedom, do not enter the study or field of ethics. This is an important point, because ethics is about the act well or badly done. By the same token, if a person acts improperly, but did so under pressure or in the absence of freedom, to choose, we cannot speak of a human act. Ethics is an ideal of human behaviour that guides each person about what is right, what is right and what to do, understanding their life relationship with peers, seeking the common good. Ethics at work not only guide the decision-making (what I do) but also the process that follows once the decision (how I do). In its action, each has its own pattern of values; it is everyone must do their own thinking, a way to reconcile their behaviours with corporate values, the code of conduct and ethics business, strategic objectives, the internal rules of the company and the applicable legislation (Delattre, 2002, pp. 19-23). The development of scholarship on ethics in the West since the Enlightenment reflects, in some respects, an effort to detach supernatural arguments from moral theories and ethical decision making and to focus ethical thought on the conduct of human relationships and on individual well-being.

In the Judeo-Christian religion have appeared three covenants or rules of moral ...