Ethics

                                     

                                       What ethics is

Ethics is a branch of philosophy. It includes the regularization, protection, and recommendation of concepts of right and wrong. What is Ethics and what is not ethics? Ethics is not Primarily About Sex, Ethics is not ‘Good in Theory but not in Practice’, Ethics is not Based on Religion, Ethics is not Relative to the Society in which You Live, Ethics is not Merely a Matter of Subjective Taste or Opinion. If so what is Ethics? This article describe about these questions. And next Hedonism. This word is derived from the Greek word hedone. It means “pleasure"

 WHAT ETHICS IS NOt

Different people interpreted ethics in different ways at different times. Some spoke of ethics as about sex, while others spoke of ethics are based on religion. Some say that ethics does not apply to the real world. But ethics is not all of this.

   Ethics is not Primarily About Sex

There was a time, around the 1950s, people think, ethics is a set of prohibitions particularly concerned with sex. But ethics is not sex.

           Ethics is not ‘Good in Theory but not in Practice’

Ethics is not ‘Good in Theory but not in Practice’. Sometimes people think that, ethic is only a theory and not practical. And it is not applicable to the real world. It is only a set of simple rules.  Those who think of ethics as a set of rules, can save their status by finding more complex and more specific rules that do not conflict with each other, or by hierarchizing the rules of a hierarchical structure to resolve conflicts between them.

        Ethics is not Based on Religion

Third, ethics is not something that can be understood only in the context of religion. Some theologians say that ethics is impossible without religion. Because 'good' means nothing but 'what god approves'. But people like Plato refused this idea. Traditionally, religion thought that the more important connection between religion and ethics would provide a reason to do what was right. It is clear from the daily findings, that moral conduct does not require a belief in heaven and hell, on the other hand, belief in heaven and hell does not always lead to moral conduct.

   Ethics is not Relative to the Society in which You Live

Ethics is not a relative or subjective. We often think first and foremost that ethics is relative to the society in which we live. This is true in one sense and false in another. As an example, casual sex is wrong when it leads to the existence of children who are not adequately cared for and who are not at fault. A definite principle such as 'casual sex is wrong' can be relative to time and place. But such a printer is objectively consistent with falsehood when it claims to apply to all instances of casual sex.

          Ethics is not Merely a Matter of Subjective Taste or Opinion

Some say that ethics is subjective. Ethical subjectivism at least avoids making nonsense of the valiant efforts of would-be moral reformers, because it depends on the approval or displeasure of the person who makes the moral judgments rather than the society of that person.

 

  

                 WHAT ETHICS IS

Ethics is the discipline of what is morally good and bad and what is morally right and wrong. This term applies to any system or theory of moral values or principles.

How should we live? Do we aim for happiness or knowledge? If we choose happiness, will it be ours or the happiness of all? Is it justifiable to live a rich life while starving people elsewhere in the world? Is it fair to go to war when innocent people are likely to be killed? Is it wrong to clone a human or destroy a human embryo in medical research?

Ethics deals with such issues at all levels. Its subject matter consists of the basics of practical decision making, the main points of which are the nature of the final value and the standards by which human actions can be judged right or wrong.

                             HEDONISM

The word Hedonism means happy or pleasure. It is a family of theories. What they all have in common is that fun plays a central role in them.

REFERENCES

1.            Singer, Peter. "About Ethics" in Practical ethics. Cambridge university press, 2011 (p. 1-15).

2.           Ethics, https://www.britannica.com/topic/ethics-philosophy

3.            Shafer-Landau, R., "Hedonism: its powerful appeal", in The fundamentals of ethics 2012 (p. 21-             56).   Oxford: Oxford University Press.