What are the concepts and differences of ethics?

1. Ethics refers to various conventional restraint mechanisms agreed by human beings on their social behaviors, and is the relationship between people, between people and nature and the rules for handling these relationships. For example, the rules of family relations are heaven, earth, monarch, relatives and teachers; For example, the law of human relations is: monarch, minister, father and son, brother, husband and wife and friends are five kinds of human relations. Loyalty, filial piety, kindness, forbearance and faithfulness are the five permanents in dealing with interpersonal relationships.

2. Morality refers to the cultivation of people's inner world, which is something in social ideology and the norm and criterion of people's social behavior. China people's morality is based on benevolence and righteousness, which is the sum of society, customs and habits. Tao is the direction, method and means; Virtue is cultivation, character and quality.

Morality often represents the positive value orientation of society and plays a role in judging whether behavior is justified or not; Based on good and evil, it evaluates people's behavior through public opinion, inner beliefs and traditional habits, and adjusts the sum of behavioral norms between people and between individuals and society.

The difference between ethics and morality:

The main differences between morality and ethics are: as a daily usage, "ethics" is more objective, external and social; "Morality" is more or more applied to individuals, more subjective, internal and individual. As the value itself, the core of ethics is legitimacy (appropriateness, appropriateness, appropriateness, etc.). ), and the core of morality is goodness (or virtue, virtue, goodness, etc. ).

As a code of conduct, ethics is universal and morality is unique; As an evaluation scale, the ethical scale is right and wrong, right and wrong, and the moral scale is good and bad, good and evil. As an academic category, ethics refers to the rational analysis, explanation, demonstration and evaluation of various morals, which is theoretical, systematic and abstract.

The connection between morality and ethics lies in that they are two sides of a whole, which are related to the meaning of good and evil in human social life and the value norms of behavior, and both have the functions of standardizing human life order and creating harmony. Ethics cannot be effectively implemented unless it is internalized into morality. If morality has no ethical basis, it will lack rationality argument and become preaching and empty talk.