etiks

• Philosophy


  Love of wisdom. An activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other
• Major Areas of Philosophy

  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Logic
  • Ethics
• Metaphysics


  The study of the nature of reality, of what exists in the world, what it is like, and how it is ordered
• Epistemology


  The study of knowledge, primarily concerned with what we can know about the world and how we can know it
• Logic


  The study of the nature and structure of arguments
• Ethics


  The study of what we ought to do and what it would be best to do, including questions about what is good and right
• Ethics


  Derived from the Greek word "ethicos", meaning "custom" or "character". Often called moral philosophy, a study that deals with the principles and laws governing the morality of the human act
• Morality


  Derived from Latin "mos" or "moris", meaning "customs"
• Ethics provides principles on the morality of human acts


  Ethics can not guarantee that man will be moral, he can only be moral if he applies ethics
• Division of Ethics


  • General Ethics
  • Special Ethics
• General Ethics


  Presents truths about human acts, and from these truths deduces the general principles of morality. It is applied to the individual in relation to himself, to God and to his fellowmen
• Special Ethics


  Applied ethics. It applies the principles of general ethics in different departments of human activity, individual and social. It includes man's relation to the family, to the state and to the world
• Importance of Ethics


  • 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 understands his purpose of existence
  • Ethics aims to have peace and harmony among all people, which is indeed the common interest of the people and the government
• Nature of Man


  • Man is the only Moral Being
  • Man has intellect that separates him from all creations
  • Morality of human acts cannot be applied to animals for they do not possess intelligence but instinct
  • Humans have the power to acquire knowledge from experience and from their environment
• Man as a rational being

  Every action of man must be in accordance with laws of reason that makes a man moral agent. It is the duty of man to live a moral life
• Man and animals


  Both have appetency and knowledge, but animals are different from man because of the intellect and free will. Morality does not apply to animals because their actions lack meaning and are beyond their control
• Ethics as Value Education


  It guides individuals in choosing wisely their values and in acting upon them. It explains human values in relation to the ultimate purpose of human existence
• Ethics as the Art of Correct Living


  Ethics is an art, implying order and harmony of parts in each whole. Human life does not imply merely physical survival, but the cultivation of traits that truly relate to man's innate dignity
• The Good


  The goodness paradigm recognizes that people have desires and aspirations, and frames values in terms of what enables a being to achieve its ends
• The Right


  The rightness paradigm recognizes that people live in groups that require organization and regulations, and frames values in terms of duty and conformance to rules
• The Good and the Right in Virtue Ethics


  This focuses on qualities of character and motives for action. Questions about what sort of character traits one should cultivate can be answered on the basis either of what is good or of what is right