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1. Ethics is part of philosophy but is unrelated to other philosophical

elds.
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2. Ethics can be dened as rules that regulate the conduct of specic
groups of people.
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3. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of the origin of ethics, meaning
the rst human distinction between good and evil.
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4. What is ethical is not necessarily legal but what is legal is necessarily
ethical.
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5. The following denition of determinism is false: If determinism is true,
then our acts are the consequences of the laws of nature and events in
the remote past. But it is not up to us what went on before we were born,
and neither is it up to us what the laws of nature are. Therefore the
consequences of these things (including our present acts) are not up to
us. (Van Inwagen).
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6. Hard determinism (or metaphysical determinism) is a view on free will
which holds that determinism is true, and that it is incompatible with free
will, and, therefore, that free will does not exist.
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7. Compatibilism (or soft determinism) is the belief that free will and
determinism are compatible ideas, and that it is possible to believe both
without being logically inconsistent.
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8. Metaphysical freedom implies that an individual is free to do whatever
he wants without being hindered by obstacles.
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9. According to Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, the ego is the only
source of our actions. Therefore we are free.
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10. Epicurus' version of hedonism, all decisions about how to live should
be based on whether or not one's actions will produce pleasure and
avoid pain.