Module 2: History

of Ethics
Ethics

According to Britannica, a Moral Philosophy, which is

concerned with what is right or wrong.
Discussion Details:

1. Origin and History of Ethics

1.2 Philosophers Perspectives about Ethics

Dating Since Biblical Times:

SARAH ABRAHAM
GREEK PERIOD
Sophists
Who are the Sophists and
what is their part in the
concept of Ethics?
Sophists:
Greek Teachers

Relation to the concept of Ethics:

They introduce the concept of Virtue Ethics
-What is Virtue Ethics?

-What is the difference of

Virtue Ethics and Ethics?
Virtue Ethics:
It emphasizes the virtues or the moral
character of the person itself

Ethics:
Focuses more on the action of the person
Greek Philosophers and
their Concept of Virtue
Ethics
Socrates:
Socrates highly believes that a
virtuous man is a man who truly
know what virtue is in an
objective sense, and for him that
is possible
Plato:
For him an act is good or virtuous if it is
generally practiced regardless of race,
language, gender.
Aristotle:
He believes that anything could be
known as long as it has forms,
anything outside of what you can see,
hear, feel, taste, smell are
unknowable and therefore you have
no knowledge of it
Cicero:
Stoicism teaches that we cannot
control nature what we can only
control are our emotions and
responses towards what nature
brings in order to be truly happy.
For them staying neutral,
emotionless and unreactive makes
them truly happy.
Epiricus:
He advocated that life must be lived
in happiness and happiness can be
achieved through living in a simple
life.
Jesus Ethical Approach
- Jesus Ethical approach reformed the ethics of the old Jewish
tradition.

- Along came the Renaissance period who found more value in

reasoning than value in actions.

-Comes with Renaissane, the Voyaging Era.