Understanding Ethics: Definitions, Scope, and Importance
1. Some Definitions of Ethics and Scope
A practical treatise regarding human actions and moral life aims not only to know them but mainly to direct them.
Studying the free behavior of individuals addresses universal problems.
Science provides criteria to order the free acts of man, guiding each person toward their ultimate goal: happiness.
Ethics calls for the election of decent behavior, the effort to do good, and the science and art to achieve it.
Scope
Wherever a person moves, their good or bad actions
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Evidence: The nature by which something is conceived in a clear and distinct manner, i.e., what is presented clearly to our reason in detail and distinct (clearly and distinctly). Something conceived in this way leaves no room for doubt and trial will be true. The criterion of truth in the ratio of what is directly conceived is true without any doubt (rejecting the senses and imagination). Existence: Descartes used this term to indicate the mode of being of man in the world. Existence is the mode
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3.1 Plato’s Dualism
Belief that ideas exist in themselves, having their own reality: ontological idealism. They exist outside of human thought, creating two separate realities that are heterogeneous.
WORLD OF IDEAS OR SPIRITUAL | Physical or Material World |
Immutable: no change over time | Mutable: things change over time |
Timeless: neither generated nor destroyed | Finite: born and die |
Intelligible: known by thought | Unintelligible: we never fully know because they are ideas |
Universal: includes all objects belonging |
Understanding Moral Values and Ethical Theories
- What Are Moral Values? Moral values serve as guides for our actions and direct our moral behavior. All figures include a duty to be, but the ethical values, and this should be a duty to involve, are a requirement or standard that we must fulfill. Ethical values are classified according to different points of view: the public or private.
- The Ethical Theories of Happiness The ethical theories we will study propose various models of a happy life. The first of them is the ethics of eudaimonia. Aristotle
Nietzsche’s Critique of Metaphysics and Religion
It tells us another feature of philosophers is a new step on the anterior. Philosophers have not only invented a new reality but have been placed in a higher place. “Transmutation Anthology” can confuse the first and last place, where the start should come at the end. Unfortunately, or should I say, it will come. This first reality is formed by the Supreme Councils, which, to be the most general, are the most empty and less general realities. They are characterized by forgetting what is real, individuality,
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Illustration: It is a period of European history that begins in the Renaissance (XVIIth-XVIII), where the ideas of Locke are typically illustrated. Enlightenment values had repercussions in Europe and America, and they are home to the aspirations of man during this time to emancipate from the metropolises, which was noticed when the first revolution broke out, followed by the South American countries. Manuel Kant: Some of the general symbols of Enlightenment include the encyclopedia and the Encyclopedists.
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