Introduction

Ethics is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature and the morality of 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

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.
 Ethics is people oriented while logic is task oriented.
 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 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 deal with the study if wages, labor, production, and distribution
of wealth. The study of these issues also involves relationships among individuals. According to
Wilber (1988), there are 3ways in which Ethics enters
 Economics. First, economists have ethical values that help shape the way they do
economics.
 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

A. Ethics and Law
 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.

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 course of their professional
practice. These guidelines in general terms, prescribe responsibilities that members
must adhere to and questionable situations in which they must be involved.

D. Ethics and Education

 Education is defined as an instruction or training by 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.

References
Business Ethics and Social Responsibility 2nd Edition by Fr. Froliano C. Roa,
https://www.slideshare.net/kahelle/mgt14-report-ppt