WHAT IS ETHICS?

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WHAT IS ETHICS?

 

Ethics involves a discipline that examines good or bad practices within the context of a moral duty. Ethics decides good and bad habits. Ethics decides good manners and bad manners.

Ethics are moral guidelines which govern good behavior. Ethics constitutes desirable conduct in a particular set of social circumstances. It always put forward certain norms and conditions for good and behavior. So, it is called a normative science. Ethics is a normative science, because it seeks to determine norms, ideals, standards and values to human behaviour


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