CHAPTER 1

Ethics:
An Introduction
PRESENTED BY:
Cristene Mae Ormido Cutay
Ryne Diones Belarmino
Ronallen Mapang Senoc
 Ethics?
 Is an academic discipline helps us
understand and adapt to situations
that affect our lives.

 Showcases the intimate connection

between thought and action (theory
and practice)
 01
Ethics and Philosophy
Ethics and Philosophy
Ethical ideas are founded in the moral order of the universe. Being a
normative science, ethics details ethical ideas. These ethical ideas are
founded in the moral order of the universe. Thus their study takes ethics
into the field of philosophy.

01 Thales of Miletus 02 Anaximander

03 Anaximenes 04 Anaxagoras
• Socrates in the 5th century B.C. philosophized and
recognized for being the first to redirect the focus of
philosophy from the natural world to the human person.

• Plato “Know yourself” and “An unexamined life is not

worth living.”

• Plato enhanced te ethical orientation of philosophy by

presenting on human life as a struggle to live more
thoughtfully; that is, to live based to a certain idea or
form of what life ought to be.
• Socrates and Plato started as evidenced in the famous
Aristotelian work Nicomachean Ethics.

• Aristotle also referred to as “the Stagirite”

• Aristotle envisioned ethical person, is one who weighs

his or her options and actions with caution.
02 Ethics and Morality
Ethics and Morality
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are the three major figures in classical or
ancient philosophy.

Ethics is philosophical because it emerges from our basic desire to

make sense of the complexities of human condition. The questions:

 “Who am I?”

 “What am I to do with my life?”

 “Who do I want to be?”

These are all expressions of the human need to understand oneself
and to use such understanding as a guide for action.
• Define ethics as a philosophical reflection on the realities
of life for a fuller and more meaningful human
experience.

• Morality and ethics are two distinct concepts; in the

former, rules and standards preced action; in the latter,
action proceeds from understanding and inquiry.
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Meta-Ethics and
Normative Ethics
Meta-Ethics and Normative Ethics
These are two different ways of studying ethics. The former
examines the question of whether not ethics is possible while the
latter concerns itself with what theory is applicable in light of a given
situation.
01 Meta-ethics
Is a study that deals with the question of
whether or not ethics or ethical theory exists.

02 Normative ethics
Concern with what theory is applicable in
light of a given situation.
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