What is ethics

Ethics is the science that deals with the study of issues such as morality and morality. The word is borrowed from the Greek language, which came from ethikós, which means "relating to morality."

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Ethics studies morality and the place it occupies in various social relations, studies its structure and nature, as well as its origin and development.

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In the minds of ancient scholars, ethics was an integral part of such sciences as philosophy and law, was considered a practical moralizing. She performed in the form of aphorisms, which went back to oral traditions.

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Aristotle defined ethics as a separate discipline. He also introduced this term in such works as “Big Ethics”, “Evdem Ethics”, etc. He defined the place of a new doctrine between politics and psychology, the main purpose of which was the formation of virtue among citizens. Along with this, such issues as the meaning of life, the nature of morality, morality, justice, etc.

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The main ethical issues are:

- the problem of good and evil;

- the problem of justice;

- the problem of the meaning of life;

- a problem for granted.

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Among the areas of research in ethics, the following are distinguished:

- normative ethics (searches for principles according to which actions and human behavior are regulated, criteria for good and evil are established);

- meta-ethics (engaged in the study of the meaning and origin of various concepts and categories of ethics);

- applied ethics (studies the application of the principles and ideas of morality in certain situations).

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The following sections of ethics are:

- agathology (engaged in the study of the "highest good");

- business ethics;

- bioethics (human morality regarding nature and medicine);

- computer ethics (the study of a person working with a computer, and his behavior);

- medical ethics (study of the relationship between patients and health workers);

- professional ethics (research of the grounds of professional activity);

- social ethics;

- environmental ethics (the study of the morality of human behavior in the natural world);

- economic ethics;

- ethics of the act;

- legal ethics (study of the culture of law).