Ethics refers to guiding principles regarding basic human conduct. It involves determining what is right and wrong in human behavior and obligations. Ethics evaluates matters like what is good to pursue and bad to avoid. It is concerned with gravity issues that affect human well-being or life. Aesthetics refers to personal judgments of approval or disapproval regarding sensory experiences like art or music. Technical valuations refer to proper or improper ways of doing tasks but may not necessarily be ethical issues. Morals refer to specific beliefs or acts, while ethics evaluates the underlying principles.
Ethics refers to guiding principles regarding basic human conduct. It involves determining what is right and wrong in human behavior and obligations. Ethics evaluates matters like what is good to pursue and bad to avoid. It is concerned with gravity issues that affect human well-being or life. Aesthetics refers to personal judgments of approval or disapproval regarding sensory experiences like art or music. Technical valuations refer to proper or improper ways of doing tasks but may not necessarily be ethical issues. Morals refer to specific beliefs or acts, while ethics evaluates the underlying principles.
Ethics refers to guiding principles regarding basic human conduct. It involves determining what is right and wrong in human behavior and obligations. Ethics evaluates matters like what is good to pursue and bad to avoid. It is concerned with gravity issues that affect human well-being or life. Aesthetics refers to personal judgments of approval or disapproval regarding sensory experiences like art or music. Technical valuations refer to proper or improper ways of doing tasks but may not necessarily be ethical issues. Morals refer to specific beliefs or acts, while ethics evaluates the underlying principles.
THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF HUMAN EXISTENCE Chapter Objectives
1. Identify the ethical aspect of human life and
the scope of ethical thinking 2. Define and explain the terms that are relevant to ethical thinking; and 3. Evaluate the difficulties that are involved in maintaining certain commonly-held notions of ethics What is ETHICS?
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that
guides people about the basic human conduct. Ethics are made to help people to decide what is right or wrong and how to act. In August 2007, newspapers reported what seemed to be seemed to be yet another sad incident of fraternity violence, Chris Anthony Mendez, a twenty-year old student of University of the Philippines, Was rushed to the hospital in the early morning hours, unconscious, with large bruises on his chest, back and legs. He passed away that morning, and the subsequent autopsy report strongly suggest that his physical injuries were most probably the result of “Hazing”. What is LAW?
It refers to systematic body of
rules that governs the whole society and the actions of its individual members DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND ETHICS?
LAW is created with an intent to maintain
social order and peace in the society and provide protection to all the citizens.
The LAW directly states what is right and
what is wrong. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND ETHICS?
ETHICS is rule of conduct of an
individual And the person decide what is wrong and what is right. LEGAL AND ETHICAL
ILLEGAL BUT ETHICAL
ILLEGAL AND UNETHICAL
VALUE Ethics, generally speaking, is about the matters such as the good thing that we should pursue and the bad thing we should avoid; the right ways in which we could or should act the wrong ways of acting. It us about what is acceptable and unacceptable in human behavior. It may involve obligations that we are expected to fulfill. Prohibitions that we are required to respect, or ideals that we are encouraged to meet. Ethics as a subject for us to study is about determining the grounds of the values with particular and special significance to human life. Clarifications and Terminology
Recognizing the notions of good
and bad, and right and wrong, are the primary concern of ethics. In order to start, it would be useful to clarify the following points. KINDS OF VALUATION Our first point of clarification that there are instances when we make value judgments that are not considered to be part of ethics. For instance, I could said that this new movie I had just seen was a “good” one because I enjoyed it, or a song I had just heard on radio was “bad” one because it had a unpleasant tone. These are not concern of ethics. These valuation that fall under the domain of aesthetics. The word “aesthetics” is derived by the greek word aisthesis (“sense” or “feeling”) and refers to the judgments of personal approval or disapproval that we make about what we see, smell, hear, or taste. In fact, we often use the word “taste” to refer to the personal aesthetic preferences that we have on these matters, such as “his taste in music” or her taste in clothes.” Similarly, we have a sense of approval or disapproval concerning certain actions which can be considered relatively more trivial in nature. Thus, for instance, I may think that it is “right” to knock politely on someone’s door, while it is “wrong” to barge into one’s office. Perhaps I may approve of a child who knows how to ask for something properly by saying “please” and otherwise, disapprove of a woman that I see picking her nose in public. These and other examples belong to the category of etiquette, which is concerned with right and wrong actions, but those which might be considered not quite grave enough to belong in discussion in ethics. We can also consider how a notion of right and wrong actions can easily appear in a context that is not a matter of ethics. This could also be when learning how to bake for instance. It derive from the greek word “techne” means “technique” and “technical” which are often used to refer to a proper way (or right way) of doing things, but a technical valuations(right and wrong technique of doing things) may not necessarily be an ethical one. Recognizing the characteristics of aesthetic and technical valuation allows us to have rough guide as to what belongs to a discussion of ethics. They involve valuations that we make in a sphere of human actions, characterized by certain gravity and concern the human well-being or human life itself. Ethics and Morals The second point of clarification is on the use of words “ethics” and “morals”. This discussion of ethics and morals would include cognates such as ethical, unethical, immoral, amoral, morality and so on. As we proceed, we should be careful particularly on the use of the word “not” when applied to the words “moral” or “ethical” as this can be ambiguous. The word “Morals” may be used to refer to specific beliefs or attitudes that people have or to describe acts that people perform.