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is the moral code that guides how an individual should behave. As a branch of knowledge. It deals with moral principles.
Ethics
It deals with moral principles. Ethics is also about the individual’s search for meaning while dealing with human problems which may
Logical , epistemological, cosmological, ethical, aesthetical, scientific problems
are logical beings but human existence is inexplicable.
Human beings
At the moment a person is born, he or she begins to suffer and will continue to suffer until death
Timbreza 1993
Ethics deals with a diverse prescription of universal concepts and principles that serve as foundation of moral beliefs. Some may agree that there is no such universal or absolute ethical principle that would apply to all, as elaborated on by ethical relativism. Some may say that the standards of right or wrong are always relative depending on cultural and social factors.
School Ethics
Ethics deals with a diverse prescription of universal concepts and principles that serve as foundation of moral beliefs. Some may agree that there is no such universal or absolute ethical principle that would apply to all, as elaborated on by ethical relativism. Some may say that the standards of right or wrong are always relative depending on cultural and social factors.
School Ethics
Ethics can be connected to
Morality
morality can be viewed in different perspectives- as a law inner conviction, as love, as personal growth, and as social transformation.
Donal Harrington
For Donal Harrington, morality can be viewed in different perspectives- as
law inner conviction, as love, as personal growth, and as social transformation.
there are also nuances between ethics and morality as illustrated by
James Gustafson
Ethics nuances
The nature of the good
• The nature of human person
• Criteria of judgement
Morality
Fundamental convictions of human agent
• Character of moral agent
Use of norms
Situational analysis
also known as moral relativism, is a school of ethics anchored on the principle that morality is relative to the norms of a particular culture. It is a theory based on norms relative to a particular culture or society. For example, some cultures may accept certain acts and behaviors that are unacceptable to other cultures
Ethical Relativism
philosophical approach or movement that began in the 1870s. The considas coined by Charles Sanders Peirce and further developed by William James.
Ethical Pragmatism
Founded by two English Philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748-1332) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), this school of ethics states that the rightness or wrongness of actions is determined by their consequences.
Ethical Lilitarianism