The Meaning of Ethics: What is it? By Prof. Jonathan Acuña Solano Sunday, October 11, 2015 Twitter: @jonacuso Post 193
The question of what ethics is is one that has been on the academic scene for a very long time. Still it has not been properly defined and what it is ascribed to it. And if thought in the teaching practice and practicum, faculty members or regular teachers may not be fully certain of what they are talking about. Velasquez, Andre, Thomas Shanks, and Meyer (2010) came up with a very important review of what ethics is not. The authors state the fact that ethics “is clearly not a matter of following one’s feelings,” “nor should one identify ethics with religion,” and is “not the same as following the law.” In addition to these ideas, they also specify that ethics “is not the same as doing whatever society accepts” either. Then, what is ethics and how does it relate to one’s teaching? The same cohort of authors agree that “ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do” (Velasquez, Andre, Thomas Shanks, & Meyer, 2010). And then, ethics is “the study of one’s ethical standards” (Velasquez, Andre, Thomas