ฉันรักแปลManuel Velasquez, Claire Andre, Thomas Shanks. S.J., and Michael j. Meyer
Some years ago, sociologist Raymond Baumhart asked business people, what does ethics mean to you Among their replies were the following
Ethics has to do with what my feelings tell me is right or wrong.
Ethics has to do with my religious beliefs.
Being ethic is doing what the law requires.
Ethics consists of the standards of behavior our society accepts.
l don’t know what the word means.
These replies might be typical of our own. The meaning of ethics is hard to pin down, and the meaning of ethics is hard to pin down and the views many people have about ethics are shaky.
Like Baumhart ’s first respondent, many people tend to equate ethics with their feelings. But bring ethical is clearly not a matter of following one’s feelings. A person following his or her feelings may recoil from doing what is right. ln fact, feelings frequently deviate from what is ethical.
Nor should one identify ethics with religion. Most religions ,of course, advocate high ethical standards. Yet if ethics were confined to religion, then ethics would apply only to religious people.
But ethics applies as much to the behavior of the atheist as to that of the devout religious person
Religion con set high ethical standards and can provide intense motivations for ethical behavior.
Ethics, however, cannot be confined to religion nor is it the same as religion.