Ethics (Greek ēthos - custom, habit, significance, disposition) - teaching doctrine on
morality; its task is not only to acquaint us with what morality is, what its basic
components are, but also to take a critical disposition towards the existing moral
practices; the goal of ethics is not only to identify all the various views of people but
also to give an evaluation and identify real and true values; critical-philosophical ethics
should identify not so much the moral judgments that people make but how these
judgments should be made concerning certain characteristics and procedures; an ethicist
should focus not only on the description and analysis of the existing norms but also on
discovering new norms; adj. ethical - one referring to ethics; colloquial - one who is
honourable, morally correct, honest, who distinguishes good from evil, etc." (Klaić,
1979:395, 396)