There is a language which different groups of people speak all around the world called ethics that everyone has from religious leaders to gangsters and serial killers. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives. Every day, we make decisions and evaluate their reasons and results on a case-by-case. Sometimes, we argue about what is ethical in which case and at the end, we run into big contradictions between right and wrong such as on abortion, terrorism, euthanasia, death penalty, nuclear energy, same-sex marriages, murders, search warrants etc. The list of twenty-first century’s ethical dilemmas are endless but the key issue and the biggest contradiction is how and on what we answer these ethical contradictions.
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The other determinants of our ethics are our later life experiences, developing emotions and positions in society. In early school life, we start to decide emotional on the way of our characteristics against different conditions and we discover the natural law of layout in society, when we contact with others. Lessons in school and thinking about what is going on because of the identity seek in puberty and questioning the meaning of life that we think it as a process that we go through where we search for a set of values that offer the truth in order to guide better our lives, direct us to search what is right or wrong and we start to shape us our own identity on the way of ethics and morals that we have learned. In addition to these, the circumstances that we are included in, can lead our learning process of ethics and judgement to different ways. They push us to think about the others and develop empathy against them.
It can affect us in two opposite ways: We can ignore fairness or we can avoid to do to be ethical. Therefore, the emotions of empathy or sympathy offer us different perspectives to …show more content…
At this point, the principles of the religion lead people to behave on ethical way, based on the senses of the heaven and the hell. According to these, if you are doing what is right or at least trying to, your reward will be in heaven. On the other hand, if you are not, your punishment will be in hell. Basically, being afraid of going to hell and expecting of going to heaven as a reward which are come from the belief of after life, are the main points of being ethical on the way of religious ethical sources. Moreover, the teachings of the prophets and their moral principles set precedents for teachings which are written on sacred books rather than blindly accept them. In addition to these, on the religious sources of the ethics, the thing to remember is that morals can be lost when not transmitted through the generations and transmitting through the generations makes the religions the biggest source of our morality.
Ethics and morality are the mix of nature, nurture, experiences and our own enquiry and choices. Our culture, our religion, politics, laws, environmental conditioning and our
Basically, …show more content…
The other determinants of our ethics are our later life experiences, developing emotions and positions in society. In early school life, we start to decide emotional on the way of our characteristics against different conditions and we discover the natural law of layout in society, when we contact with others. Lessons in school and thinking about what is going on because of the identity seek in puberty and questioning the meaning of life that we think it as a process that we go through where we search for a set of values that offer the truth in order to guide better our lives, direct us to search what is right or wrong and we start to shape us our own identity on the way of ethics and morals that we have learned. In addition to these, the circumstances that we are included in, can lead our learning process of ethics and judgement to different ways. They push us to think about the others and develop empathy against them.
It can affect us in two opposite ways: We can ignore fairness or we can avoid to do to be ethical. Therefore, the emotions of empathy or sympathy offer us different perspectives to …show more content…
At this point, the principles of the religion lead people to behave on ethical way, based on the senses of the heaven and the hell. According to these, if you are doing what is right or at least trying to, your reward will be in heaven. On the other hand, if you are not, your punishment will be in hell. Basically, being afraid of going to hell and expecting of going to heaven as a reward which are come from the belief of after life, are the main points of being ethical on the way of religious ethical sources. Moreover, the teachings of the prophets and their moral principles set precedents for teachings which are written on sacred books rather than blindly accept them. In addition to these, on the religious sources of the ethics, the thing to remember is that morals can be lost when not transmitted through the generations and transmitting through the generations makes the religions the biggest source of our morality.
Ethics and morality are the mix of nature, nurture, experiences and our own enquiry and choices. Our culture, our religion, politics, laws, environmental conditioning and our