Exploring the Sources and Dimensions of Social Ethics

Mybell Nashed

ICPH 304: Ethics and social/ political philosophy

Dr. Izady

What are the sources of social Ethics?

Are social ethics universal or local? Social ethics are moral principles that represent the shared experience of people and different cultures. It shows what is acceptable and what is not. Social ethics puts laws and rules in order to protect the person’s life. It collects all the different culture and put rules for those people in order for them to be able to live with each other safely in peace. For example, the law about prohibiting against killing and robbery. This law protects the people from what they might do to each other due to lack of morals for some people. Ethics in general are the ideas about how to behave yourself and do well. Therefore, social ethics is about the right behavior and giving a better life for people in the society. It’s telling people what is right and wrong. The idea of having laws is to let people know what is wrong and not doing it,

It gives us rights to be who we want to be or do what we want to do. As much as society gives us liberty, but it doesn’t give us freedom. There’s a difference between freedom and liberty. Freedom is the ability to do whatever pleases the person, for example, when a person wants to go outside and walk in the streets naked but he can’t or even allowed to because he has liberty not freedom. Liberty gives people the right to practice freedom but in limit. So when this person gets arrested for walking outside naked is called liberty, he doesn’t have the right to go outside his house naked. Therefore, you have the ability to do whatever you want inside your own house but not outside. Freedom is you can do whatever you want to yourself but not others. Freedoms end when you interfere someone else’s freedom. For example, you are free to smoke, until you encounter my freedom not to inhale your