ethics is a feminine noun that expresses the quality what is it ethical and moral, characterizing someone who acts that way.
Ethics intends to give a foundation to moral requirements (pure and normative ethics), establishing by itself the laws that will have to determine the moral conduct of personal and collective life. In this sense, their role is often to demonstrate how it is possible to overcome ethical relativism.
In Antiquity, the representatives of ethical reflection were Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. In modern times Kant and Fichte and in contemporary times were Nietzsche, M. Scheler, N. Hartmann and A. Schweitzer.
Principle of Ethicity
Ethicity is one of the fundamental principles of the 2002 Civil Code. This principle has as a necessary consequence the principle of objective good faith, and means that individuals must act in good faith in civil relations.
Along with the principles of operability and sociability, the principle of ethics constitutes an important pillar of the Brazilian Civil Code, because it attributes value to the dignity of the human being. According to this principle, an individual must be upright, loyal, honest and fair. This means that any attitude that goes against the principle of ethics must be punished.
Ethicity, being one of the characteristics of the civil code, guarantees that it has "ethical support", because it recognizes and values honesty, social solidarity and other qualities of the human being.
Hegel and ethics
According to Hegel, ethics can also be portrayed as "objective morality" or "ethical life" and expresses the truth of two abstract concepts - law and morality. According to the German philosopher, the realization, limitation and mediation of freedom constitute the scope of ethics, and in order to realize freedom, is present in the family, in civil society and in the State.
