This document discusses ethics and politics. It defines ethics as moral principles that govern behavior. There are three major areas of ethics: meta-ethics examines the nature of ethics, normative ethics studies ethical actions, and applied ethics analyzes particular moral issues. Politics is defined as running governmental affairs, including behaviors within civil government. The document also provides a code of ethics for politicians and emphasizes the importance of ethics for human life and rational goal-setting.

1. ETHICS AND POLITICS
Module 6

2. WHAT ARE ETHICS?
Also known as ‘Moral Philosophy’
Moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an
activity
Involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right
and wrong conduct

3. 3 MAJOR OPERATIONAL AREAS OF
ETHICS
1. Meta-Ethics
2. Normative Ethics
3. Applied Ethics

4. META-ETHICS
Branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties,
statements, attitudes, and judgments

5. NORMATIVE ETHICS
Normative ethics is the study of ethical action. It is the branch of
philosophical ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when
considering how one ought to act, morally speaking.

6. APPLIED ETHICS
Applied ethics is the branch of ethics concerned with the analysis of
particular moral issues in private and public life

7. WHAT ARE POLITICS?
The art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including
behavior within the civil government

8. CODE OF ETHICS FOR POLITICIANS
• Tell the truth
• Take responsibility
• Risk above the fray
• Listen
• Criticize the ARGUMENT, not the
PEOPLE
• Don’t make promises you cannot
keep
• Spend fairly
• Remember what it is about
• Take a break
• Lose well

9. IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS
Ethics is a requirement for human life. It is our means of deciding a course
of action. Without it, our actions would be random and aimless. To the
degree which a rational ethical standard is taken, we are able to correctly
organize our goals and actions to accomplish our most important values.

10. WORKS CITED
• Politics Info:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/political-ethics
• Ethics:
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-ethics-organizations-
20925.html