Ethics: The need for a Conceptual Framework

ISBN-13: 9783330318502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 104 str.

Frederick Jacobus de Waal

Opis

Ethics is undefined and its universality denied by most people. Yet the answers have been available for thousands of years. Every meaningful code of conduct incorporated the last six of the Biblical ten commandments. Human philosophy and rhetoric has not and cannot, in itself, find suitable answers to daily ethical dilemmas. Conceptual ethical principles or concepts appear the only way to address the many possible facets of ethics. Many failed attempts have been made or suggested to improve unethical human behaviour. The reason is that an unethical mindset and consequently behaviour, is subject to the choices of the individual and the neural pathways and patterns formed by those choices over time. In addition, humans do not have the inherent ability to change themselves or pick themselves up by their shoelaces. Once people realize their unethical state of mind and its destructive results on self and society they can choose to change, yet cannot do so by themselves. To restore and heal a sick human attitude and mind require a great Physician and there is only one.

O autorze

The author qualified as a CA(SA) and as a professor in accounting trained CAs and MBAs for many years. He was a heathen for 24 years until he met Christ in 1974. He supports free association between all believers based on the only independently proven divinely inspired writing, the Bible, with its many prophecies verified by history.