The relevance of medical ethics to daily practice should be obvious to all doctors, but the relationship between 'ethics and practice' raises many complex moral issues. 'Medical ethics is not a new subject, but a vital aspect of all medical practice, the implications of which must be made explicit throughout medical education'.' The key word is 'explicit', because morality is a serious and abst...

Happiness is the ontological state of human nature by which it defined as a being endowed with reason, will and feeling. Anthropological analysis, whether carried out from theological perspective or philosophical perspective, places man in continuous ascent towards happiness. Thus, question can be asked: two ethical systems define person possessor morality happiness, what are their limits?

From the presumed biological evolutionary origins of a urmorality, there eventually developed a conscious set of morality concepts and rules that became less immediate and more abstract, and increasingly shaped by social factors. Today the concepts and precepts of morality have come to form a complex system in which each specialized professional ethics respond with a certain degree of latitude ...

In the fall 2009 issue of Teaching Ethics C.E. Harris wrote an article with a question as the title, “Is Moral Theory Useful in Practical Ethics?” which he answered in the affirmative.1 In Harris’ article he considers two moral theories. “For utilitarianism the purpose of morality is to promote human well-being, and moral principles and judgments should be evaluated in terms of their effectiven...

In this paper we argue that puzzle of tax compliance can be explained, at least in part, by recognizing the typically neglected role of ethics in individual behavior; that is, individuals do not always behave as the selfish, rational, self-interested individuals portrayed in the standard neoclassical paradigm, but rather are often motivated by many other factors that have as their main foundati...