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The questions of how to behave ethically and how to know what is and

what is not ethical have plagued men and women for ages and for good reason.

The difference between an ethical and unethical action are not always clear

cut and even attempting to define what is ethical is a hardy pursuit. Even

if hypothetically anything ethical will inherently be “good” or “right” and

anything unethical leads to “evil” or “wrong”, the questions would still

need to be answered; what is right, wrong, good and evil and does the society

one lives in affect their conclusion. How do cognitive and emotional process,

as well as any motives one may have, affect what they consider to be ethical?

Is there a system or formula that can be used to decipher the ethicality of

an action and once an action is taken is there a way to prove that it was

ethical? By looking into these questions and others, one will find that there

are in fact some universals, but in many cases classifying ethics becomes a

Ethics is also known as a moral philosophy and customarily every religion

and culture has guidelines and common b

on expressions of positive or negative feelings, something that Kant and

the Enlightenment. One problem of it is that agreeing on the will of God

motivates a person and where they find justification.

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