GEC Ethics: The nature of ethics

• Ethics – is the practical science of the morality of human conduct
• Human conduct – those activities are deliberate and free, which are either in agreement or in disagreement with the dictates of reason.
• Human act – a deliberate and free act, and act performed with motive; and act determined by the free will; an act which proceeds from the deliberate free will of man.
• Acts of man – are acts performed without any motive or intervention of the free will.
• Morality – it is the relation of the agreement or disagreement of human activities with the dictates of reason.
• Agent – is the one who performs or does an act
• Ethics is a science firstly because it is a complete and systematically arranged body of knowledge or data that relate to the morality of human conduct and it presents reason which show data to be true.
• For a science to be practical its data must directly imply rules or direction for thought or action, it must present truth that must be acted upon and gives knowledge and with a definite guidance.
• Ethics is a practical science for it directly implies and indicates directions for human conduct.
• Ethics is a science of human conduct for it deals human conduct for it deals with human acts, which make human conduct.
• Ethics is a practical science of morality of the human conduct because it deals with human activities that are free, knowing and deliberately done, which are either in agreement or not in agreement with the dictates of reason. And it studies such activities in order to determine how it to be in harmony with the dictates of reason is.
• The etymology of ethics, derives from the Greek word ethos which means (a characteristic way of acting)
• The etymology of ethics, derives from the Greek word ethos which means (a characteristic way of acting) this characteristic way of acting is found in the free and deliberate use of the will, that is found in the human acts.
• Every science has a material and formal object.
• The material object of ethics is human acts, that is to say human conduct.
• The material object is the subject matter to the things that science deals.
• The formal object which is the special way that science employs in

  dealing with its material object.
• The formal object in ethics, which is the special way that science employs in dealing with its material object, rectitude of human acts
• Ethics employs the faculty of human reason in order to deal with the important question of what must an upright life be.
• Faculty of human reason - It furnishes the norm by which the relation among men are regulated. It appeals to many minds when employed as a means of approach to the demonstration of the truth of the catholic religion.
• Faulty ethical theories and the lack of definite ethical principles are the cause of disorders in the political and social world.
• Ethics supplies the needed scientific knowledge which judges the unworthiness and reason of things.