WHICH ETHICS?
WHICH ETHICS?

Summary/Abstract: Man has, everywhere and always, sought to understand the purpose of things placed in the familiar and most distant universe. The man of ancient Greece did not have a revealed and well-defined order/truth at hand, he had two instruments: the body and the mind. Greek ethics is the ethics of mortal man, the ethics of the measure of the limit, valid for all. In this vision, the roots of Western culture are deepened, expressed through the way of thinking and dialogue. Man acts according to an immediate good and the ultimate good is happiness which must be the measure of the laws of life in common. But what is happiness? For the Greeks, happiness is the realization of one's purpose, according to reason, which is its own characteristic in a virtuous lifestyle. Research on happiness becomes research on virtue. Pleasure is also linked to this, wealth, beauty, health can make the virtuous life easier or harder, but they cannot determine it: goodness and badness depend only on man. Christian ethics introduces a new concept of religion that recognizes the fatherhood of God before whom all men are equal and brothers. He is a good creator and a merciful father who does not measure his goodness by merit but "rains down his gifts on the just and the unjust", opening the gates of the kingdom of heaven to all. Ethics was, and remains, at the center of philosophical reasoning, as an argument that makes the contours of philosophy intertwine with those of theology, science or aesthetics.

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