2. 4 The importance of
Ethics is a system of
principles that helps us
tell right from wrong,
good from
bad. Ethics can give real
and practical guidance
our lives
3 Ethics is concerned
with what is good for
individuals and society
and is also described a
s moral philosophy.
2
Four types of Ethics
Descriptive Ethics.
Normative Ethics.
Meta Ethics.
Applied Ethics
.
I
ETHICS
The four principles
of ethics :
autonomy,
justice,
beneficence,
non-
maleficence.
4. MORALITY
Morality refers to the set of standards that enable people to live cooperatively in groups. It’s what societies determine
to be “right” and “acceptable.”
Sometimes, acting in a moral manner means individuals must sacrifice their own short-term interests to benefit
society. Individuals who go against these standards may be considered immoral.
Morals that Transced Time and Culture
Some morals seem to transcend across the globe and across time, however. Researchers have discovered
that these seven morals seem somewhat universal
• Be brave
• Be fair
• Defer to authority
• Help your group
• Love your family
• Return favors
• Respect others’ property
6. Ethics is the set of values and customs disseminated by a given society, while morality is the individual practice influenced
by this set of ethical values. So, ethics and morals complement each other, since our moral decisions are also influenced by
the ethical values we receive from our family, from the society of the community.
It is important to emphasize that the formal separation between morals and ethics takes place mainly from Contemporary
Philosophy. Before that, philosophers did not have a rigid boundary between these two concepts.
It will be from the emergence of modernity, especially with Descartes, that individual issues become fundamental, initiating
investigations into the subject's internal tensions (moral) in confrontation with culture and laws (ethics).
ETHICS VS MORALITY
7. 1. Helping
When someone asks you for financial help on the street or an elderly person asks you for help to cross the street, you have
choice to help or not.
However, the moral, as it is more related to individual values, can allow you to reflect on that situation and offer the
help.
2. Committing unlawful acts
This is an important question to be reflected on within the concepts of morals and ethics.
Illicit situations such as stealing or killing are, by law, subject to punishment and, morally speaking, they are not in line with
good values and customs of society.
Therefore, committing illegal acts such as stealing and killing are considered by ethics and morals actions that have
punishments, whether they are ethical, legal or moral.
3. Dispose of garbage in the street
If, when walking on a public road, a person has a package that he intends to discard, for ethics he should throw this package
the trash. This would be correct both ethically and morally.
However, she may decide to throw the package on the public road. By ethics this is seen as something bad, because in
to littering the street, this person may be setting a bad example for other individuals to commit this same act.
CONCLUSION
In a broader sense, the purpose of the two is very similar, as both ethics and morals are responsible for building the bases
will guide the conduct of individuals and the best way to act in society.
