Ethics allows us to do good or evil based on a moral assessment.
The condition of ethics is called ethics : in accordance with morality . The notion also refers to the goodness of people's actions.
Morality, society and values
In general, the concept of ethics refers to the education of individuals regarding values . It is about the human capacity to choose how to act based on an assessment that is linked to morality and social issues and that develops throughout life.
Each human being goes beyond nature, as it is transformed and in turn transforms the world through culture . Ethics is what shapes subjects when they think about their behavior within the framework of a society.
People register and incorporate the norms that allow them to organize their existence in the community . It can be said that ethics is the process that leads someone to identify with a group, recognizing its values .
Ethics, therefore, refers to the effort that is carried out so that values are respected and reflected. As a socialization process, education allows us to form identity through interactions impregnated with these values.
ethos
It is important to remember the idea of ethos , which is associated with the mode of behavior that makes up the identity and character of an individual or a group. Since the human being is not born or develops in isolation, the ethos is social: actions are carried out within a society with specific values and generate effects on others. It is also moral, since individual behavior obeys rules that are accepted as valid and that promote dignity.
If we focus on the etymology of the term ethos , which comes from Greek, its meaning is "conduct and custom", and interpretations that include "personality, character and conduct" originate from it. It is linked to the way of being, feeling or thinking, with morality and temperament . As a curious fact, its oldest meaning was "den of animals or abode of men." It was only in the hands of Aristotle that it acquired the aforementioned meanings.
Ethics is often spoken of as our second nature , which people form throughout their lives, as we learn respect for those around us and for ourselves, and we form our character without forgetting the society in which we live. that we are framed. Well, according to the tradition of Greece, ethos is understood in the same way, since it is something we acquire and not a trait with which we are born.
A deep contradiction can be observed between the supposed need that human beings feel to develop norms to limit their character in the context of a community and the need to be free, to express ourselves against the pillars of society that oppress us, that They prevent us from being ourselves. The same species creates this second nature to then challenge it , prohibits freedom and then reclaims it, kills and asks for forgiveness.
Human beings transform their environment drastically through culture.
Transforming power
Ethics has allowed our species to modify its environment at unprecedented levels, to the point of transforming the planet itself into something new , where our footprint is impossible to ignore. Since we learn to deal with things and other living beings, we feel the need to print our opinions, our style , to make it clear that "they are not us" and vice versa.
It is this force, this power that characterizes us and has led us to alter the conditions of the Earth, to bring it to an imbalance with which we are not satisfied and we are trying to resolve through new transformative tactics.