Activity 1.

Ethics and Morals

Actividad 1

ASIGNATURA:
Ética Profesional

PRESENTA:

Yamile Martinez Babativa ID 512215

TUTOR:

Gustavo Adolfo Gómez Robayo

Corporación Universitaria minuto de Dios

Bogotá D.C. Octubre 19 del 2017
Please read the following text and answer the questions at the end of it

Morin, E. (2006). El método 6. Ética. Madrid, España: Editorial Cátedra

The philosopher –antrophologist Edgar Morin, author of the book “El Método” explain through six volumes the
great difficulty of thinking the complexity of the reality. In the Sixth volumen entitled Ethics, proposes a particular
situation of ethics as a relinking act.
The following excerpt explains how complexity must be faced in the social level:

“Every glance about ethics must perceive moral act as an individual act of relinking: a relinking act to the fellow
human being, a relinking act to the community, a relinking act to the society, but at the end, also a relinking act to
the Humankind. There is an individual source of ethics placed in the inclusiveness principle, this how the individual is
included into a comunity (us), the inclussiveness principle also takes us to the love, friendship and altruism.
Inclussiveness is as worthy as relinking (Anschlusswert). At the same time, there is a social source that lays inside the
rules and norms themselves. This source make the individuals to have a sympathetic behavior. There is, then a kind
of pre-established harmony that makes individuals to follow sympathetic ethics. In certain point, moral is a “natural”
concept in human beings and it depens on the human being and social nature as well.However this definition needs
to be changed, due to the doublé-faced nature of human beigns and society. On one hand, individual is addressed
under a strong pression of egocentricity and selfishness; on the other hand, society is driven to rivalries, struggles of
selfish interests. The ethics norms are not imposed completely to all individuals in a society; nevertheless individuals
only can have an ethical behaviour after they have ovwercame their own selfish thoughts and desires. This issue gets
worse in complex societies, where the indiviual progress is tided to desintegratrion of traditional sympathetic
concepts” (Morin, 2006, pág. 24)

According to the reading excerpt, answer the following questions:

1. According to Morin (2006), relinking can be consider as

a. An individual perception of reality that offers us identity.

b. An individual perception of reality that takes us to individualism
c. A common identity to the others around us.
d. An individual identity to be apart from the others around us.

2. The concept of Harmony can be claimed as

a. An engine that drives individuals to be synpathetic in society.
b. A mechanism that blocks sympathetic behaviours among individuals
c. An engine that supports egocentricity
d. A mechanism that makes possible the reproduction of society

3. Morin (2006), points out the concept that corresponds to the nature of individuals and society, which is:
a. Ethics
b. Moral(X
c. Harmony
d. Egocentricity

4. The doble-faced nature of human being and society is determined by:

a. Egocentricity and rivalries
b. Cooperation and solidarity
c. Politics and religion
d. Ethics and Moral
5. According to Morin (2006), societies only can get an ethical behaviour after overcoming
a. Greed
b. Ambition
c. Selfishness
d. None