ETHICS

• Ethics is the philosophical science dealing with the morality of human acts.
• Ethics provides the principle on the human morality acts.
• Ethics is a branch of the Science of Philosophy.
• A case study can be developed regarding virtue ethics.
• The final project in ethics can be a case study on virtue ethics.
• Virtue ethics is a proposed solution to ethical problems.
• Ethics is derived from the word “Ethicos” which means “custom” or “character”.
• Ethics is often called “moral philosophy”.
• Ethics is a study that deals with the principles and laws governing the morality of the human act.
• Morality of human acts means the goodness or badness, the rightness or wrongness, or the acceptability or unacceptability of human acts.
• Morality comes from the latin word “mos” or “moris” which means “custom”.
• Ethics provides principles on the morality of human acts; it provides man with theoretical knowledge of the morality of human acts.
• A man can be moral if he applies ethics.
• Ethics provides the theory or principles of right or wrong or goodness and badness.
• General Ethics presents truths about human acts and from these truths deduce the general principles of morality.
• Special Ethics, also known as Applied Ethics, applies to the principles of general ethics in different departments of human activity, individual and social.
• Ethics means living in a proper way and it is in the development of a good moral character and virtues that man finds perfection and understand his purpose of existence.
• Everybody aims to have peace and harmony among all the people which is indeed the common interest of the people and the government.
• Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and cognitive (mental) processes.
• Laws imposed by the society must be fair, just and human and must be for the welfare of the majority of the people and not offensive to morality.
• Education liberates men from ignorance not only from ethical standards but also from laws that are implemented by the society.
• Through education man becomes civilized and cultured which guides him to live morally.
• Law consists of statutes, regulations, common law and constitutional law.
• A piece of art should reflect beauty and must inspire every person who sees it.
• Etiquette is a set of rules for well-mannered behaviour.
• Politics covers the administration and management of our government.
• Psychology only investigates how man behaves.
• Politics is concerned with the material needs of man while ethics is for the spiritual.
• Man’s artistic creation must have a noble purpose, which should not be offensive to morality.
• Psychology is not concerned with the morality of human behavior unlike ethics.
• Ethics and Sociology: Sociology is the scientific study of society and culture WHILE Ethics is concerned with the moral order which also includes social order.
• Etiquette is an unwritten code or rules of social or professional behaviour such as medical etiquette.
• Laws are rules developed by governments in order to provide balance in society and protection to its citizens.
• Ethics is the science of good and proper living but good living presupposes correct thinking and reasoning.
• Political Science is the study of state and government.
• Moral code of an individual or of a society is referred to as morality.
• Man is a rational being and acts in accordance with the laws of nature.
• To live in accordance with the laws of nature, man has to act in accordance with the laws of nature, as per Immanuel Kant.
• Man is an animal, and there are actions and activities of man which are the same with other animals.
• Man alone has the capacity to think and to decide actions proper to him as a rational being.