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Definition of Ethics

Slovak University of TechnologyFaculty of Material Science and Technology in Trnava

Ethics

The word "ethics" is derived from the Greek word ethos (character), and from the Latin word mores (customs).

Together, they combine to define how individuals choose to interact with one another.

Ethics

In philosophy, ethics defines what is good for the individual and for society and establishes the nature of duties that people owe themselves and one another

"What does ethics mean to you?"

A few years ago, sociologist Raymond Baumhart asked business people, "What does ethics mean to you?" Among their replies were the following:

„Ethics has to do with what my feelings tell me is right or wrong.“

"What does ethics mean to you?"

„Ethics has to do with my religious beliefs.“ „Being ethical is doing what the law

requires.“ „Ethics consists of the standards of

behavior our society accepts.“ „I don't know what the word means.“

What is ethics?

First, ethics refers to well based standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues.

What is ethics?

Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that impose the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder, assault, slander, and fraud.

What is ethics? Ethical standards also include those that

enjoin virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty. And, ethical standards include standards relating to rights, such as the right to life, the right to freedom from injury, and the right to privacy. Such standards are adequate standards of ethics because they are supported by consistent and well founded reasons.

What is ethics?

Secondly, ethics refers to the study and development of one's ethical standards. As mentioned above, feelings, laws, and social norms can deviate from what is ethical.

What is ethics?

So it is necessary to constantly examine one's standards to ensure that they are reasonable and well-founded.

Ethics also means, then, the continuous effort of studying our own moral beliefs and our moral conduct, and striving to ensure that we, and the institutions we help to shape, live up to standards that are reasonable and solidly-based.

What is Morality?

It is necessary at the outset of this article to distinguish between morality and ethics, terms not seldom employed synonymously. Morality is antecedent to ethics: it denotes those concrete activities of which ethics is the science. It may be defined as human conduct in so far as it is freely subordinated to the ideal of what is right and fitting.

What is virtues?

Virtues may be divided: intellectual moral theological.

Intellectual virtue

Intellectual virtue may be defined as a habit perfecting the intellect to elicit with readiness acts that are good in reference to their proper object, namely, truth.

Moral Virtues

are admirable character traits; generally desirable dispositions, which contribute, among other things, to social harmony

enable us to act in accordance with reason enable us to feel appropriately and have the

right intention are orientations towards the mean, rather than

the extremes (vices relate to extremes)

The theological virtues

Faith Hope Charity

Emotions

Biological, cognitive, social, physiological, neurological, psychological, cultural perspectives

Emotions facilitate reasoning Thinking and feeling Experience and anticipate

Conscience

the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.

Conscience Through conscience and its related notion,

synderesis, human beings discern what is right and wrong. While there are many medieval views about the nature of conscience, most views regard human beings as capable of knowing in general what ought to be done and applying this knowledge through conscience to particular decisions about action. The ability to act on the determinations of conscience is, moreover, tied to the development of the moral virtues, which in turn refines the functions of conscience.

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