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Lesson1 IntroToEthics

The document discusses ethics, morals, and laws. It defines ethics as the philosophical study of morality and includes any moral system or code. Morals differ between individuals based on factors like age, culture, religion and experience. Ethics describes the standards of behavior expected in a community. Laws are rules that tell people what they can and cannot do. The relationship is that ethical people follow the law, and moral people are also ethical and law-abiding. The document provides references to support these definitions and differences.

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Lesson1 IntroToEthics

The document discusses ethics, morals, and laws. It defines ethics as the philosophical study of morality and includes any moral system or code. Morals differ between individuals based on factors like age, culture, religion and experience. Ethics describes the standards of behavior expected in a community. Laws are rules that tell people what they can and cannot do. The relationship is that ethical people follow the law, and moral people are also ethical and law-abiding. The document provides references to support these definitions and differences.

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Introduction to

Ethics
Lesson Outcome

At the end of the topic, the student must have:

▸ discussed what is ethics


▸ discussed the difference between Morals,
Ethics, and Laws.
What is Ethics?

▸ Ethics refers to the philosophical study


and theory of what is morally:

Right and Good

Wrong and Bad

Singer, P. (2020)
What is Ethics?
▸ This also includes any system or code of
moral rules, principles, or values which may
be associated with particular religions,
cultures, professions, or virtually any other
group that is at least partly characterized by
its moral outlook.

Singer, P. (2020)
What is Ethics?

▸ Ethics is a set of beliefs about right


and wrong behavior and these ethical
behaviors conform to generally
accepted social norms which are
almost believed by the community.

Reynolds, G. (2007)
What is Ethics?
▸ The morals that a community is observing may
differ from one person to another depending on
how these people perceived what is right or what
is wrong. Morals differ from person to person
because of the following factors:

Age / Family
Background/
Peer
Maturity Culture Experience
Environment Religion Gender Education Influence
/ Personal
Values

Reynolds, G. (2007)
If it is said that morals differ from person to
person, it follows that ethics may also differ
from person to person or from one group of
people to another group of people.
Value System
▸ The Value system is the set of values according to which an
individual, people, society, or organization regulates their
behavior (collinsdictionary.com, 2020).  
▸ Value System is a set of values that all moral agents
possess, and demonstrated according to their personal
choices.
▸ The personal value systems of each person differ from one
another; hence there is no singular value system within a
community. This is called an individualistic concept.
▸ This means that a person’s value system is influenced by
one's virtues or vices. (yourdictionary.com, 2020)
Value System
Virtues are habits that
persuade people to do what is Vices are habits of
acceptable. unacceptable
behavior.
Example of virtue are Integrity,
Fairness, Courage, Justice, Examples of vices
Honesty, Loyalty, Generosity include Pride, Vanity,
Greed, Injustice, Envy,
and Anger

(Andre., C and Velasquez, M., 2020)


(Fieser, 2017)
 
The Difference between Morals, Ethics, and Laws

From Reynolds, G. (2007)


▸ Morals are one’s personal beliefs about right
and wrong.

▸ Ethics describes standards or codes of


behavior expected from an individual by the
community to which that individual belongs
to.
▸ Law is a system of rules that tells what a
person can and cannot do.
The Difference between Morals, Ethics, and Laws

From Perez, A. (2007)


▸ Ethics is the moral principles that govern a person's
behavior or how that person conducts an activity. 
▸ Morals are concerned with the principles of right and
wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of
human character. 
▸ Law is the system of rules that a particular country or
community recognizes as regulating the actions of its
members and may enforce by the imposition of
penalties.
Relationship between Morals, Ethics, and Laws

▸ The figure means that:


ETHICS
• if a person is ethical,
then that person
EM EL abides the law.
• If the person is morally
EML
oriented then that
person is also ethical
MORALITY LAW
and is also considered
ML
to abide by the law.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethics-
vs-morals-law-dr-arturo-perez
References

▸ Andre, C., and Velasquez, M. (2020). Ethics and Virtue. Retrieved from
https://www.scu.edu/mcae/publications/iie/v1n3/virtue.html
▸ collinsdictionary.com. (2020). Values System. Retrieved from
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/value-system,
▸ Ethics Centre. (2016). Ethics, morality, law – what’s the difference?. Retrieved from
https://ethics.org.au/ethics-morality-law-whats-the-difference/
▸ Fieser, J. (2017). Virtues. Retrieved from
https://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/300/virtues.htm
▸ Perez, A. (2017). Ethics vs Morals vs Law. Retrieved from
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ethics-vs-morals-law-dr-arturo-perez
▸ Reynolds, G., (2007). Ethics in Information Technology, 2 nd Edition. Cengage Learning
▸ Singer, P. (2020). Ethics. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/ethics-philosophy
▸ yourdictionary.com. (2020). Value-system. Retrieved from
https://www.yourdictionary.com/value-system
THANKS! 😉

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