Is ethics natural or learned behavior?

Is ethics natural or learned behavior?

Ethics is regarded as rules by which a person lives his or her life and make various decisions that are better for both the person and the community. The best way to think about ethics is to assume their various aspects and think about how these aspects effects the life of people. Ethics are like jigsaw puzzles that a person develops with time which makes the person realize that what he or she is and what are their basic believes. From the earlier days of life person keeps on adopting and learning things around them. The research conducted by various psychologists also shows that the behavior of the people is reflected by the environment in which they exist. Most of the people learn a lot from their environment that is the reflection of the natural process. The knowledge of ethics and its understanding plays an important role for a person. There are various reasons that show its importance. Ethics play an important role in helping the person to differentiate between right and wrong. This also allows the person's to understand various situations and how to react against such situations before they occur and take place. These are regarded as situational ethics that allows the person to react against various situations and helps the person what to do before the occurrence of such situations. Ethics also helps the person how to react and co ordinate with other people. This helps the people to understand the various behaviors that a person must adopt while coordinating with other people belonging to various age group, ethnicity and community. Ethics are based on truth and the teachings of God, for example ethics directs the people to act kindly with children and love them and treat them as God. Here we will discuss that either ethics is learned or it comes naturally in the person. Few people and philosophers believe that Ethics that a person develops is a natural process that a person adopts naturally from the environments, community society and parents. However some philosophers believe that ethics is a broad field that is needed to be learned and studied properly to live the life in much better and effective manner. Here we will discuss the both these believes of various philosophers and the researchers (Geary, et.al, 1994)

Most of the philosophers wonder when they see people behaving ethically. This makes them to think that what is the origin of the ethical behavior either this behavior comes originally or it is learned by passing through some process. This made them to research over the origin of the ethical behavior. Various theories were developed which shows that ethical behavior is rational and motivated by self interest. Many theories show that people come to differentiate between rights and wrong naturally by the teachings of the religion and their various experiences of the society the live in. religion plays an important role in the development of the ...