importance of ethics in our society

1. Waleed Siddiqui
BME-163103

2. Importance of Ethics

3. Introduction
•Ethics is the branch of philosophy that
involves systematizing, defending, and
recommending concepts of right and wrong
conduct.
•The term ethics derives from the ancient
Greek word 'ethos’ which means custom or
habit.
•In practice, ethics seeks to resolve
questions of human morality, by defining
concepts such as good and evil, right and
wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.

4. Bioethicist Larry Churchill
has written: "Ethics,
understood as the
capacity to think critically
about moral values and
direct our actions in terms
of such values, is a generic
human capacity."

5. Types of Ethics

6. Philosophers nowadays divide ethical theories mainly into
three areas: meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied
ethics.
• Meta-ethics deals with the nature of moral judgment. It
looks at the origins and meaning of ethical principles.
• Normative ethics is concerned with the content of moral
judgments and the criteria for what is right and what is
wrong course of action.
• Applied ethics looks at what a person is obligated (or
permitted) to do in a specific situation or a particular
domain of action.

7. Difference between Meta &
Normative Ethics
•Normative Ethics deals
with questions like
“Which of my actions
should be considered as
good?”
•Meta Ethics
deals with
questions like
“What is
‘good’?”

8. Why do we need Ethics?

9. Ethics guides us
like a map
•Most moral issues get us pretty worked up because these
are such emotional issues we often let our hearts do the
arguing while our brains just go with the flow.
But there's another way of tackling these issues, and that's
where philosophers can come in - they offer us ethical rules
and principles that enable us to take a cooler view of moral
problems.

10. Ethics is about feeling for others
• At the heart of ethics is a concern about
something or someone other than us and
our own desires and self-interest.
• Ethics is concerned with other people's
interests, with the interests of society.
• So when a person 'thinks ethically' they
are giving at least some thought to
something beyond themselves.

11. Conclusion
Technological growth and all other progress as a
civilization fails if we give up our morals and values.
The only thing which separates us from other
animals is our conscience. If we obey our morals our
internal peace is maintained. So, our code of ethics
makes us who we are and keeps the society in
harmony.

12. ~ waleeda jee