DEFINITION OF ETHICS:

 ETHICS
IS DERIVED FROM GEEK WORD
ETHOS MEANING CHARACTER
 CHARACTER IS THE ESSENCE OF VALUES AND
HABITS OF PERSONS AND GROUP
 .ethics as relating to what is good or bad, and having
to do with
moral duty and obligation..
 .ethics are the principles of conduct governing an
individual or a
GRoup.
 IT GENERALLY COVERS THE ANALYSIS
OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG,GOOD
AND BAD AND ACTING WITH
RESPONSIBILITIES
DIFFERENCES OF ETHICS AND MORALS:
 ;ETHICS IS A ROOT WORD OF GREEK
ETHOS MEANING CHARACTER
 MORAL IS A ROOT WORD OF LATIN
MOS MENING CUSTOM
 ALTHOUGH BOTH ARE RELATING TO
DEFINE WAT IS GOOD AND BAD THEY
HAVE GOT TWO DIFFERENT
STANDARDS
 CHARACTER IS A PESONAL ATTRIBUTE
 CUSTOM IS MENTIONED TO GROUP
OVER
TIME
 PEOPLE HAVE CHARACTER
 SOCITY HAVE CUSTOMS
 VOILATING BOTH ARE SAID TO BE
WRONG
 MORALS ARE ACCEPTED FROM AN
AUTHORITY
 ETHICS ARE ACCEPTED BECOZ THEY
FOLLOW FROM PERSONALLY
ACCEPTED PRINCIPLES.
 AN ETHICAL VIEW IS BASED ON
PERSONAL PROPERTY THAT SHOULD
NOT BE TAKEN WITHOT SOCIAL
CONCERN
  MORAL NORMS ARE UsuaLLY BASED
ON GENERAL RULES AND
STATEMENTS

 NATURE OF ETHICS:

 Ethics refers to the standard of

behavour how human beings
ought to act in many situations in
which they find themselves-as
friends , parents ,children ,citizens
and so on…….

 Ethics is not same as feelings

.feelings provide important
information for ethical choices.
some people have highly
developed habits so that they feel
bad when they r doing wrong but
most of them feel good even
when they r doing bad and often
 our feelings tell us
uncomfortable to do right things
 Ethics is not religious many
people are not religious but
ethics are applicable to all
religious.
 Ethics is not following law a
good system of law can
incorporate ethical standards, but
law can deviate from what is
ethical .law can become ethically
corrupt
 Ethics is not following culturally
accepted norms some culture
may ethical but others become
corrupted ….to certain ethical
concerns
 Ethics is not science social and
natural science together help us
to give data for ethical choices
but science alone do not tell us
what we ought to do.