ETHICS03
ETHICS03
ETHICS03
month after the Bay of Pigs incident. Boles wrote in his private
tionships one has with other human beings. Thus, the study of
ethics is the study of our value system and how we put it to work
Yet each day every person is confronted with the difficult task
who chooses to control his own thoughts and chooses his own
values has a change again such mind tyrants.
that you will find all of these theories limited. Most of them
Within each person are many mind voices, and the voices all
voices are rooted in the past. Others come from those we love,
many voices, and to weight the value of each voice to see if some
come from sources that might be labeled more logical or more
important than others. We will look for the root value of those
fact that we will, perhaps for the first time in our life, study
the United Nations and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize) said,
WHAT IS ETHICS?
ethics, let me share two stories. The first story will reveal a
scholar who spent his life pondering the meaning of right and
wrong. The second story will be that of a man who was so sure he
knew what was right or wrong that he died for his belief.
stuff."
A DEFINITION OF ETHICS
tions. First, what are morals? The dictionary says that morals
human actions and character. Such being the case, we may now
ers.
carry the question even further and ask, "If one were isolated on
nonethical?"
the history of man and his civilization conclude that each and
It may very well have been that their value system would not
will find that we are not always logical, nor do we always ap-