Ethics and Environment An Indian Perspective

By: P, Sivakumar

INTRODUCTION The domain of ethics broadly falls into two areas, namely ethics as a subject matter and ethics as an area of study-moral philosophy. Almost all the discussions and debates in ethics are concentrated on the 'accepted standards of conduct'. This accepted standard of conduct decides the behavior of human beings. In public life, one is expected to follow some standards of behavior which is approved by the society. The interesting point is that this standard of behavior cannot reflect the hue nature of an individual. Morality is a discussion about such general accepted standards in - society. Ethics denotes such philosophical study of morality. 1 The physical environment in an area is the deciding factor to lead a comf011able life. We are totally depending on the physical environment. The same thing is applicable to ethical environment also. There is a strong relation between physical environment and ethical environment. "Perhaps few of us are sensitive to what we might call the moral or ethical environment. This is the smTounding climate of ideas about how to live. It dete1mines what we find acceptable or unacceptable, admirable or,

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798210216816
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Ahmed Faraz Hussain
• Length: 242 Pages
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