INTRODUCTION

TO ETHICS
PRESENTED BY:

Louella Mikka S. Tattao, LPT, MAGC, CHRA

IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING
ETHICS
 DEFINITION OF
ETHICS
• Is a branch of Philosophy that
seeks to determine the correct
application of moral notions such
as good and bad and right and
wrong theory.
 DEFINITION OF
ETHICS
• It is also called as moral philosophy,
the discipline concerned with what is
morally good and bad and morally
right and wrong.
 DEFINITION OF
ETHICS
• Ethics etymologically comes from the
Greek word “Ethikos”. It means usage,
and character.

• The Latin equivalent of ethics is

“mores” which means custom.
FATHER OF ETHICS:
Socrates
• was a Greek philosopher from Athens
who is credited as the founder of
Western philosophy and among the
first moral philosophers of the ethical
tradition of thought.

• He is the founder of the Ethical

System.
• There are many well known
figures in the history of Ethics.

Greek Philosophers
• Plato
• Aristotle

Modern Philosophers
• Immanuel Kant
• Jeremy Bentham
• John Stuart Mill
• John Rawls
BRANCHES OF
ETHICS
 BRANCHES OF
ETHICS
• Normative Ethics
• Meta Ethics
• Applied Ethics
• Moral Ethics
• Descriptive Ethics
NORMATIVE
ETHICS
 NORMATIVE ETHICS
• It is also known as Prescriptive Ethics.

• Normative ethics is the branch of ethics that

deals with moral rules and principles.

• The word ‘normative’ signifies ‘norms’ or ‘rules’

to be followed. The definition of normative ethics
can be stated as laying certain rules about good
and bad and following them diligently.
 NORMATIVE ETHICS
• It is the study of our ethical actions, asking
ourselves “how we should act in a certain
situation”.

• It involves arriving at moral decisions that

regulate right and wrong conduct based on
the norms that you need to follow.
METAETHICS
ETHICS
 META ETHICS
• is the study of moral thought and moral
language. Meta-ethics asks what morality
actually is.

• Meta-ethics addresses the second-order

question, such as the meaning and status
of moral judgments.
 META ETHICS
• Meta-Ethics is also known as Analytical
Ethics that concerned with elucidating the
meaning of ethical terms or the discipline
concerned with the comparison of ethical
theories.
 APPLIED ETHICS

• Applied ethics, also called practical

ethics, is the application of ethics to
real-world problems. Applied ethics
attempts to answer the question of
how people should act in specific
situations.
MORAL
ETHICS
 MORAL ETHICS
• This is a branch that questions how
individuals develop their morality.
The state of moral ethics greatly
depends on whom you ask.

• Moral Ethics aspects of morality differ

between cultures, and why certain
aspects of morality are generally
universal.
DESCRIPTIVE
ETHICS
DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS
• It is also known as comparative ethics

• it simply involves describing how people

behave and/or what sorts of moral
standards they claim to follow.
 TO SUM UP:
• Descriptive ethics: What do people think is right?
• Meta-ethics: What does "right" even mean?
• Normative ethics: How should people act?
• Applied ethics: How do we take moral knowledge and put it
into practice?
• Moral Ethics- questions how individuals develop their
morality
 ACTIVITY:
Among the five branches of
ethics choose one and
relate it to your course or
program
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