| נשלח ב-7/11/2005 00:24 |
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What is ethics?
Agreeing that being ethical is the best way to live, we should discuss what is ''being ethical''.
Who decides on what's ethical?
What are the parameters?
Can ethics change with time, or is only humans that become aware to it?
I assume that many of the philosophers answered these questioned over the years. I assume too that no one came up with the same answers. Can we debate it as to what we think about it? what WE think is the true ethical way?
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| נשלח ב-7/11/2005 01:00 |
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| נשלח ב-8/11/2005 04:58 |
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Dear Hasid,
I think that it would very much help if you first define what YOU mean by the word "ethical"!
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| נשלח ב-25/11/2005 21:34 |
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Sachliel,
That was my question, what is the definition of ethics?
Killing someone is unethical, yet killing in self-defense is permissible legally and even halachakly. Killing for a crime i.e. capital punishment is debated as unethical or morally alright. What are the parameters and how does one define them?
תוקן על ידי - hasid_emes - 25/11/2005 21:33:28
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| נשלח ב-27/11/2005 19:41 |
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Dear Hasid,
So lets take it to a simple level not talking in a high vocabulary of "ethics" or "morals" but can we just define what we mean by the simple words of "right" and "wrong"?
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| נשלח ב-28/11/2005 03:13 |
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R' Sachliel,
I must shamefully admit that no, I have no idea how to define right and wrong. Perhaps the gemorah in Shabbos "דעלך סאני לחברך לא תעביד" is a good parameter. I'm sure that it is quite debatable for the definition of what makes me mad could make you quite hilariously happy.
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| נשלח ב-28/11/2005 07:56 |
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Dear Hasid,
I think that the best way to reach a clear definition is not to search for a complicated formula, but just to try translate the meaning of the words right and wrong as we use it unhesitantly in everyday life.
In that area a nice leveling has been done by Veto in the Table of content forum and just in case you would want to give it a try, here is the link:
15:36 נשלח ב 11/3/2004 ווטו1
http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?topic_id=842825
There he arranges into types and levels the cases for which one uses the terms right and wrong.
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| נשלח ב-6/12/2005 00:10 |
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The word ethics comes from Greek "ethicos" that means behaviour. In fact the Tora is teaching us how to behave. Therefore one has to consider the possibility to link ethics to Judaism. The question remains: is there an ethics which is not dependent from the Tora.
I would appreciate if someone has some ideas about this topics.
Best
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| נשלח ב-6/12/2005 01:25 |
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