1. Pre-established moral values in a pattern of good or bad that govern the conduct of an individual or social group.
2. Philosophy dedicated to the study of the principles that guide human behavior.
Etymology: by latin ethicsfeminine of ethĭcuswith respect to the Greek ἠθική (ēthikḗ), feminine of ἠθικός (ēthikós).
Grammatical category: noun fem.
in syllables: ethics.
Ethics
Ethics is a science whose object of study is morality and human behavior.. We know what is good, what else is bad, if someone is respectable or corrupt, loyal or unworthy, thanks precisely to ethics, which is what proposes the moral assessment of people, actions or situations and, therefore, , it will be this same one that will guide our behavior and the one that appears at times when it is necessary to obtain a guide from how to act on certain occasions.
The origin and study of ethics go back to the golden age of Greece with its great thinkers. For example, at that time Plato wrote his well-known treatise on politics called The Republic and Aristotle also did his thing with respect to it and gave rise to the first treatise on ethics called Nicomachean Ethics and which proposed that every human being is oriented to find the happiness or eudemonic ethics.
Meanwhile, the concept was widely discussed later by other philosophers who proposed a vision completely different from that of antiquity, such is the case of Immanuel Kant, for example, who argued that morality could only be governed by reason.
On the other hand, ethics is subdivided into several branches, such as bioethics, Hacker ethics, revolutionary, Kantian, empirical, among others, however, we will deal with one of the best known and the most current application in the professional world, such as professional deontology, which is part of normative ethics and is the branch of ethics that deals with the study of moral norms and the foundations of duty that professionals in each field will have to follow and observe: legal, medical, journalistic and that they will achieve it through the observation of the postulates sustained in the deontological codes, which regulate and regulate the profession and of course will also mark when faced with unethical behavior on the part of any of these professionals .
It is precisely in professions such as doctors, lawyers or journalists, in addition to the relevant academic training needed to develop them, it is vitally important that they also educate themselves in terms of behaviors that stray from ethics, Because sometimes, something as precious as life, in the case of medicine and in charge of preserving it, it is necessary that from the university it is crushed in this sense, to avoid future headaches or more drastic losses.
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