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Is it possible that different codes of ethics and regulations drawn up by ethics committees within the political and public sectors contribute to the construction of a civil ethic?

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which those actions or objects are morally desirable. For example, helping someone in need is a desirable action. What value does that action represent? Solidarity. Thus, this would translate into a moral norm: "we must be in solidarity with others.

Finally, we can talk about the ethics of maximums and minimums. The minimums are concerned with those duties of justice which must be demanded of all rational beings and which, therefore, must constitute minimum requirements. The maximums, on the other hand, offer ideals of good life, in which the goods that man can enjoy are presented in a hierarchical form, according to the happiness that they can produce.

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Is it possible that different codes of ethics and regulations drawn up by ethics committees

within the political and public sectors contribute to the construction of a civil ethic?

From the conceptions and definitions provided by Adela Cortina it could be mentioned that in general terms it is possible that the different ethical codes and regulations contribute to form a civil ethics inasmuch as they can function as a rational base that generates a deep reflection with respect to what ethics should be and the adequate or inadequate way of acting of man. Cortina mentioned in his work "ethics" that ethical reflection, although it is more typical of philosophers, can also be generated from the reflection of those who do not classify between such recognition, for this reason if a proposal is offered that is recognized as a guide with respect to the way people act, a critical questioning can be produced that leads us to draw our own conclusions about such rules and codes.

This ethic seeks to open a space to create civil society, to respond to a new society under construction, which emerges from an absence of human rationality in citizen procedures, from the prevalence of force over conscience and dignity and of the individual good over the common good.

Therefore it can be said that this ethics that is called civil or citizen ethics is a contemporary proposal that has been defined by one of its most egregious exponents, Adela Cortina, as "Set of values and norms shared by a morally pluralistic society that allows different groups, not only

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