Ethics
LESSON 3: THE RELATIONSHIP OF ETHICS
WITH OTHER SCIENCES AND OTHER PHASES OF
HUMAN LIFE
Introduction
Ethics is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature
and the morality f human conduct. To some extent,
Ethics is related to other sciences because it also deals
with the investigation of the nature of man as a rational
being and a being in relation with other beings. But
unlike other sciences, the focus and the locus of Ethics is
to study man’s nature and his behavior from the
standpoint of morality. The material object of Ethics is
the human conduct and the object is morality.
Relationship of Ethics with Other Sciences
The following discussion is focused on how Ethics, as a
science which studies the nature of man and the human
conduct, is especially related to other sciences which
likewise deal with the study of human nature and human
conduct.
A. Ethics and Logic
Ethics is the study of correct action or doing, while Logic
studies the process of correct and organized thinking.
Doing follows thinking. Logic therefore is aimed at the
right thinking and Ethics is aimed at the right acting or
right doing and behavior.
Based on perceiving information, Ethics focuses first and
foremost on the demands of the subjective human
world, or world of people and relationships. In
communication, ethics focuses and studies people’s
feelings and emotional states based on non-verbal
information and how things are said. Logic is focused on
the demands of the material, nonhuman world, or world
of things in one’s environment. In communication, Logic
focuses on and studies what is done and said, or the
contents of one’s speech.
On intellectual qualities, 
 Ethics is people oriented while logic is task oriented.  that help shape the way they do economics.
 Ethics is focused on enhancing relationships,
modifying content and forms of speech to match
and contradict what others expect to hear. Logic is
focused on not misleading a person and giving him
correct information.
B. Ethics and Psychology
Both Ethics and Psychology deals with the study of man
and his behavior. However, Psychology studies how man
behaves, while Ethics studies how man ought to
behave. 
 Psychology is not interested in the morality of
human behavior, while Ethics is concerned with
man’s moral obligation or the result of his
behavior. 
 Ethics is the study of human behavior from the
perspective of morality. Psychology, on the other
hand, is the scientific study of mental and
behavioral characteristics, associated with a
particular kind of behavior.
C. Ethics and Sociology
 Sociology deals with the study of social order
while Ethics deals with the study of moral order
in the society. There is no social order if there
is no moral order. 
 Therefore, the foundation of any society
depends on the moral values of people and
their perspective concept of what is good and
bad in human relationships.
 Society depends on ethics for its underlying
principles, Sociology deals with human relations
in a society, but human relations are based on
the proper order and the proper order comes
only with the proper observance of moral laws
and principles which regulate the actions of
men and women in a community.
D. Ethics and Economics
Economics as a science deals with the study if wages,
labour, production, and distribution of wealth. The study
of these issues also involves relationships among
individuals.  According to Wilber (1988), there are 3
ways in which Ethics enters 
 Economics. First, economists have ethical values
 Second, economic actors (consumers, workers,
business owners) have ethical values that help
shape their behavior.
 Third, economic institutions and policies impact
people differentially and thus, ethical
evaluations, in addition to economic evaluations,
are important.
Relationship of Ethics with Other Phases of
Human Life
Ethics
The study of Ethics crosses religious and cultural course of their professional practice. These
boundaries and is directed at the question of guidelines in general terms, prescribe
how critical decisions are to be made so that an responsibilities that members must adhere to
organization may work best together, to build a and questionable situations in which they must
community and social relationships in a positive be involved.
and productive way.
D. Ethics and Education

A. Ethics and Law Education is defined as an instruction or training by

 Ethics and law are closely related. Ethics deals
with morality, and when we speak of morality,
we mean primarily the moral law.
 Law may be defined as crystallized ethics. Law
and morality presuppose the concept of right
and wrong, good and bad, and the rules of
conduct.
However, there is a difference on what is moral
and what is legal. Laws are intended to regulate
the external actions of man while ethics
investigates and probes the internal disposition
of man, such as his motivations and his
thoughts.
B. Ethics and Religion
 Ethics is a disciple or set of moral principles and
values governing an individual or institutional
behavior. Religion generally refers to the service
and worship of God and is typically expressed as
a personal or institutional set of beliefs, attitudes
and practices.
 Ethics evaluate the behavior of man against his
values regardless of the source of those values.
While religion certainly can create an impact on
individuals and may actually include mandates
for ethical behavior.
 Lastly, ethics and religion both seeks the
absolute truth. Ethics seeks the absolute truth
by using human reason alone, while religion
tries to understand his same absolute truth by
virtue of one’s faith and his adherence to divine
revelation.
which people learn to develop and use their mental,
moral, and physical powers and abilities. It is also one
way of gaining experience about human life. Since man
however primarily a rational moral being, the purpose of
education is  to protect the moral character in man.
 Great educator once said “education is co-extensive
with life.” Hence, we can say that ethics is life because it
is the one that gives life its direction, purpose, and
meaning.
E. Ethics and Art
 Art is concerned with the use of imagination to
make things of aesthetics significance. Ethics is
aimed at conforming to an accepted standard of
good behavior.
 Ethics also stands for moral goddess, art, and
beauty. Both true art and true ethics have the
same aim; 
 That is, to arouse and inspire the noble
emotions of man, thereby creating no conflict at
all. Consequently, an art which arouses the
lower impulses of man defeats the very purpose
of art.

C. Ethics and Professional Code of Conduct

 Based on the Webster’s Dictionary, the meaning
of professional is relating to or characteristics of
a profession; engaged in one of the professions.
Professionalism on the other hand is the conduct
that characterizes a profession of a professional
person; or it can also be the pursuit of a
profession fore gain of livelihood.
 Professional code of ethics is a set of behavioral
guidelines that members of a profession are
required by their association to observe in the