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2. Characteristics of ethics. It is the real fact that occurs in the mentality of some people, is a set of rules namely, principle and reasons that a subject has made and established as a guideline for his own conduct. 3. Similarities and differences between ethics and morals. The points where they meet are as follows: ●
In both cases it's about rules, perceptions, it must be.
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Morality is a set of rules that a society is responsible for transmitting of
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generation in generation and ethics is a set of norms that a subject has clarified and adopted in his or her own mentality.
What are the main models of ethics based on philosophical theory? In the first place, one can speak of descriptive and prescriptive ethics. With regard to descriptive ethics, it can be mentioned that they are all those that conceive the ethical phenomenon as something that occurs and that therefore must be studied, described and analyzed from its events; while, on the contrary, prescriptive ethics conceive reflection as normative, that is, as a set of contents that must be recommended and followed. Secondly, there are naturalistic and non-naturalistic ethics. These two differ in that naturalistic ethics conceive morality as that which seeks the happiness, pleasure or enjoyment of the human being, while non-naturalistic ethics understand morality as a reality that cannot be reduced to any other realm or factor. On the other hand, there are cognitivist and non-cognitivist ethics. Cognitivists conceive morality as a reality that can be known by man and, therefore, can be defined as true or false, as the case may be. Non-cognitivists, on the other hand, understand that morality cannot be known by man and is neither true nor false. Another classification is material and formal ethics. Material ethics affirm that the criteria of morality that launch judgments on actions are explained according to the contents, since they recognize the existence of a good. The formal ones, on the other hand, do not understand the
