ethics is right and wrong but its really hard to determine right and wrong because of what is good for me may be bad for others...vice versa................so do you think that ethics must be eliminate or stay as branch of philosophy?why?explain your statement
2006-10-10 02:02:58 · 10 answers · asked by khenzkey_wawa08 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
it is a study of right and wrong in correlation to philosophical aspects. so it a part of philosophy.
2006-10-10 05:33:14 · answer #1 · answered by prince47 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ethics should certainly be considered a branch of philosophy, but your definition of Ethics in the philosophical sense is a bit off. Ethics is about right and wrong only in a modern, unphilosophical sense. Strictly speaking, Ethics stems out of the prime desires of human life. When asking exactly what it is that humans desire, Aristotle arrives at happiness as the ultimate goal; not happiness in a transitory, Bacchic sense, but deep-seated contentment and satisfaction with one's life. Ethics is intended to describe the system of action which can achieve a human's ultimate goals: the achievement of happiness. In this sense, right and wrong become servants of contentment/satisfaction/happiness, rather than the other way around.
To arrive at such happiness requires asking all of the other questions that philosophy addresses: teliology, epistemology, cosmology, etc, for the exact definition of happiness is fluid and changing. One person may consider happiness one thing, another would consider it otherwise. This, coincidentally, is opposed to Aristotle, who posited an absolute answer to the question of Ethics. If you want to dissect this more, feel free to get a list of good Ethical treatises, but make sure that they're philosophers, not moralists. "Right and wrong" as we think of it consists more of Moralizing than Ethics.
However, more and more often, philosophers are considering the possibility the the branches of philosophy are created by our understanding of philosophy and the systems of knowledge in existence. In other words; we can never truly know the universe, since we are trying to do so from within the universe, which creates its own biases and reduces the question into impossibility. Because of this, what we seek is the understanding of our approach to the universe. However, by understanding our approach to the universe, the change that approach! Thus, philosophy, epistemology, and even teliology (the purpose of things) is fluid, ever-changing, since the changing of the consciousness that observes the universe changes our understanding of the universe.
Quite a mouthful, I know, but Ethics is victim to this very uncertainty, which is why it fits perfectly within philosophy.
2006-10-10 02:31:31 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If philosophy is the creation of theories about reality, then the study of morality(ethics) must be included in the process.
At the heart of all knowledge is the determination of what is right and what is wrong in the life of a person. Ones interpretation of right and wrong, therefore, is the creation of a theory about his/her own reality.
Morality changes over time just as the world changes. People's views about right and wrong have not stayed at a constant level since the beginning of conscienceness. What you watch on TV, for example, has dramatically changed since it's inception.
In my opinion, ethics is the key element to understanding philosophy.
2006-10-10 02:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by Rox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goodness - of course ethics should be a branch of philosophy. In fact, in my opinion, it's the most important branch since it affects (or can affect) our daily lives in so many ways that, say, cosmology or epistemology, doesn't.
Your "basis" for excluding ethics seems to be that "it's really hard to determine right and wrong." But mama mia - NOTHING in philosophy (the search after truth) is "easy." Philosophy deals precisely with the hard to answer questions. In fact, we may never to able to get universally satisfactory answers to many of the questions that philosophy poses, but by asking them and trying to answer them, we learn more about the universe and about ourselves.
2006-10-10 02:13:35 · answer #4 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is and should stay as part of Philosophy because many Philosophers speak about Ethics, and teach us or at least cause us to think from their writings.
2006-10-10 03:53:44 · answer #5 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C. this is the closest in terms of the subject of Ethics as defined as branch of Philosophy encompassing suited habit and robust existence. that's somewhat broader than the ordinary theory of the prognosis of what's right and what's incorrect which necessary ingredient is 'sturdy existence'.
2016-12-08 12:05:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
must stay. No technology can be workable without the presence
of ethics. Ethics is in favour of the major good. (buy the book:
Introduction to Scientology Ethics).
Ciao......John-John.
2006-10-10 02:34:21 · answer #7 · answered by John-John 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, ethics is an easier topic to speak about than type about, here are some examples of ethics...
http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=irishdictator
2006-10-17 13:35:29 · answer #8 · answered by SlapADog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all things are to be accounted for thow shalt not cast you neighbor out of your house ..but ate in his ways,and with openness experience that which you do not know, then allow the wind to carry away the chaff. trust in god to teach you as you learn from each member of his body. he is everything
2006-10-10 05:30:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
See? If you has studied, you wouldn't be in this mess!!
2006-10-10 02:06:41 · answer #10 · answered by alfonso 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋