Can the learning of Ethics being?
The terms “morality” and “ethics” are used so interchangeably and not really distinguished from each other. Morality can be taught but that seems to be a more personal and/or “religious” activity. But with ethics – if taught in schools or classrooms – can lessons learned be verified before adulthood is reached? If not, then why spend tax dollars teaching ethics in schools?
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I think of it this way–we are all products of what we experience or learn. If students are exposed to situations where they learn what a morally or ethically just person may do or how they may react, it is possible that they internalize the lesson to some degree. However, if no one attempts to expose them to the issues of morality (this doesn’t mean specific lessons–it means novels, etc) , it is possible for them to take the attitude “every man for himself.” With students growing up with attitudes as such, I wouldn’t want to be a part of that society.
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one of my bizlaw professor once to me that if i find that a customer has given me by accident an extra one hundred dollars the question of telling the customer is a moral one , the question should i tell my partner is an ethical one.
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