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• Ethics


  The traditional manners, customs, habits, character, or attitude of a community or a group, which pertains to the group's standards or norms
• Ethics


  • A science
  • A practical science
  • A normative science
  • Based on reason
• Human acts


  Actions done by the human person based on knowledge and the full consent of the will
• Acts of man


  Actions done in the absence of either knowledge and will
• Voluntary human conduct


  Includes all actions as well as non-actions because the human person understands and wills these activities in relation to some end that he has in view
• Ethics


  • Provides norms for the goodness and badness of a certain act
  • Orients human person towards an ideal vision or goal that will lead him to happiness
• Value


  That which an individual deems to be useful, desirable or significant; it sets in a man an idea of good that is inclined towards that which is objectively the fulfillment of the being of man
• Moral vs. Non-moral


  Ethics focuses on determining what good is and finding ways on how to know whether one's action is leading to his goodness or not
• Immanuel Kant's moral bases

  • Human freedom
  • Immortality of the soul
  • Existence of God
• Arguments for human freedom
• Arguments for immortality of the soul
• Arguments for existence of God
• Division of ethics


  General ethics: Identifies the moral norms that determine good and evil actions

  Applied ethics: Focuses on applying general moral concepts and principles to specific situations in life