THE SOURCES OF PERSONAL ETHICS AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOR

Discuss the following points one by one:

  1. Define ethic and then morals and why they are not the same. Keep in mind that ethics are how you

treat others while morals are values (bad or good) held personally or collectively. The “Golden

Rule’ would help you answer this,

  1. Explain what is the source of ethics, and then the sources for morals.
  2. Explain why--by virtue of their source-- ethics are universal, absolute and objective; while morals

are general, relative and subjective.

  1. Review in this context ideas of Socrates/Plato, Aristotle, Kant and Hegel discussed in class;