means

morally uptight. Thus, the philosophers speak of Ethics

as the “only necessaty knowledge”.

Morality is the foundation of every human society. Without a civic morality, communities perish, without
personal morality their survival has no value. Every culture admits the importance of morality as a
standard of behavior. When the moral foundations of a nation are

threatened, society itself is threatened.

Morality therefore, has a wider implication than law, because law can either be moral or immoral. Thus,
what is legal is not necessarily moral; but what is moral is worth legalizing.

Ethics is not simply a body of do’s and don‘ts in the manner laws are.

Ethics is a personal commitment to uphold what is true and good. Ethics aims to develop “right
disposition and inner spirit” for accepting what is lawlhl.

Morality is the quality of human acts by which they are constituted as good, bad, or indifferent.

ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF HUMAN ACTS

1. It must be performed by a conscious agent who is aware of what he is doing and its consequences.

2. It must be perfonned by an agent who is acting freely, that is, by his own volition and powers. An
action done under duress and against one’s will is not entirely a free action.
3. It must be performed by an agent who decides willfully to perform the not. This willfulness is the
result to perform an act here and now, or in some future nmo.

thics outlines theories of tight or wrong, morality translate these theories into action. Themfon. morality
is nothing else but it is 3 doing of ethics.

IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS

Indispensable knowledge. Without moral perception, man is only an animal. a Without morality, man as
rational being is a failure.

Moral integrity is the only true measure of what man ought to be. The most successful professional, is
nothing unless he too is morally uptight. Thus, the philosophers speak of Ethics

as the “only necessaty knowledge”.

Morality is the foundation of every human society. Without a civic morality, communities perish, without
personal morality their survival has no value. Every culture admits the importance of morality as a
standard of behavior. When the moral foundations of a nation are

threatened, society itself is threatened.

Morality therefore, has a wider implication than law, because law can either be moral or immoral. Thus,
what is legal is not necessarily moral; but what is moral is worth legalizing.

Ethics is not simply a body of do’s and don‘ts in the manner laws are.
Ethics is a personal commitment to uphold what is true and good. Ethics aims to develop “right
disposition and inner spirit” for accepting what is lawlhl.

Morality is the quality of human acts by which they are constituted as good, bad, or indifferent.

ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF HUMAN ACTS

1. It must be performed by a conscious agent who is aware of what he is doing and its consequences.

2. It must be perfonned by an agent who is acting freely, that is, by his own volition and powers. An
action done under duress and against one’s will is not entirely a free action.

3. It must be performed by an agent who decides willfully to perform the not. This willfulness is the
result to perform an act here and now, or in some future nmo.