With our societies undergoing structural and sociological changes, we are facing dilemmas regarding what is right, what is wrong and how to make better decisions. In short, we are facing ethical dilemma. Now, ethics not only concern us as individuals, but collectively too. There is a widespread discussion going on regarding ethical society, ethical government and even ethical business. Before we delve deeper, it is imperative that we define ethics first and then move on to more interesting issues.
What is ethics?
In simple terms, ethics is the behavioral norm that human beings are supposed to follow when faced with different life situations. Ethics is what you ought to do when you are playing different roles like, parents, citizens, employees and as businessmen.
In this regard, it is essential to point out that we tend to identify ethics with our feelings, law, religion or what our culture expects us to follow. In reality, however, ethics encompasses larger values as many philosophers and ethicists have tried to explain.
Here is a brief discussion on sources of ethical standards that will definitely help us in ethical decision making.ethicsethical decisionsdecision making
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