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    Ethics refers to standards of conduct that prescribe what is good and seek to ensure people and institutions act in accordance with well-reasoned principles of right and wrong. It includes standards involving virtues, rights, obligations and fairness. Ethics also refers to continually studying and improving one's moral principles. Morality consists of systems of rules and principles that guide human behavior. It is not simply relative or private but rather deals with public standards for evaluating rules of conduct.

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    Ethics refers to standards of conduct that prescribe what is good and seek to ensure people and institutions act in accordance with well-reasoned principles of right and wrong. It includes standards involving virtues, rights, obligations and fairness. Ethics also refers to continually studying and improving one's moral principles. Morality consists of systems of rules and principles that guide human behavior. It is not simply relative or private but rather deals with public standards for evaluating rules of conduct.

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    INTRODUCTION

    TO ETHICS

    Lecture No. 01
    Objectives
     Introduction of the topic
     Defining Ethics
     How Ethics are different from Law?
     How Ethics and Compliance are related?
     How Ethics and Morality are related?
    What is Ethics?
    Sometime back, a sociologist asked a group of people,
    "What does ethics mean to you?"
    Some of the replies were:
     "Ethics has to do with what my feelings tell
    me is right or wrong.“
     "Ethics has to do with my religious beliefs.“
     "Being ethical is doing what the law
    requires.“
     "Ethics consists of the standards of behavior
    our society accepts.“
     "I don't know what the word means."

    These replies might be typical of our own.


    The meaning of "ethics" is hard to pin down,
    and the views many people have about
    ethics are shaky.
    What, then, is ethics?
    Ethics is two things.
    First, ethics refers to well based standards of right
    and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do,
    usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to
    society, fairness, or specific virtues.
    Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that
    impose the reasonable obligations to refrain from
    stealing, rape, murder, assault, slander, and fraud.
    Ethical standards also include those that enjoin
    virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty.
    And, ethical standards include standards relating to
    rights, such as the right to life, the right to freedom
    from injury, and the right to privacy. Such standards
    are adequate standards of ethics because they are
    supported by consistent and well founded reasons.
    Secondly, ethics refers to the study and development
    of one's ethical standards. As mentioned above,
    feelings, laws, and social norms can deviate from
    what is ethical. So it is necessary to constantly
    examine one's standards to ensure that they are
    reasonable and well-founded.
    Ethics also means, then, the continuous effort of
    studying our own moral beliefs and our moral
    conduct, and striving to ensure that we, and the
    institutions we help to shape, live up to standards
    that are reasonable and solidly-based.
    Ethics Vs Law
    Illegal & Legal &
    Ethical Ethical

    Illegal & Legal &


    Unethical Unethical
    What is Ethics and Morality?

     Ethos (Greek) and Mores (Latin) are terms having to


    do with “custom,” ”habit,” and “behavior.
     Ethics is the study of morality.
     This definition raises two questions:
     (a) What is morality?
     (b) What is the study of morality?
    What is Morality?

     Morality can be defined as:


    a system of rules for guiding human conduct, and
    principles for evaluating those rules.

     Two points are worth noting in this definition:


    (i) morality is a system; and
    (ii) it is a system comprised of moral rules and
    principles.
     Moral rules can be understood as "rules of conduct,"
    which are very similar to "policies."
    Summary
    • Ethics:
    – Study of morality
    – Branch of Philosophy

    • Morality
    – System of Rules
    – Rules of conduct
    Roadblocks to Moral Discourse

     People disagree about morality; so how can we


    reach agreement on moral issues?
     Who am I/Who are we to judge others and to impose
    my/our values on others?
     Isn't morality simply a private matter?
     Isn't morality simply a matter that different cultures
    and groups should determine for themselves?
    Ethics is Simply a Private Matter
     Moralityis essentially personal in nature
    and therefore a private matter

     “Private
    morality" is essentially an
    oxymoron or contradictory notion.

     Morality is a public phenomenon (Gert).


    Morality is “relative”
    A Matter for Individual Cultures to
    Decide
    A moral system is dependent on, or relative
    to, a particular culture or group.
     Ethical Relativism.
     Need to distinguish between:
    Cultural relativism Different cultures have
    different beliefs about what constitutes
    morally right and wrong behavior.
    Moral relativism no universal standard of
    morality is possible because different people
    have different beliefs about what is right and
    wrong.
    Conclusion

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