The history of the ethics

This class was very interesting as we saw the development of ethics and how it was created, as we already know, ethics is the analysis of behavior and real actions, as all history has a beginning, it all started in Greece when philosophers began to reasoning about what is good and how we can manage to act that way, they came to the conclusion that what we needed was to act in a rational way, prudence and temperance.

Socrates, who is called the father of ethics because thanks to him the ethics born, he believed that to create good before we had to know ourselves and know how we were, he had a disciple called Plato who admired him a lot, what Plato thought was that passion had to be controlled since it leads to causing problems for the existence of humans, just as Socrates had a disciple Plato  also had it and it was Aristotle who said that the goal of life was to find happiness but that for that we needed cultivate and live virtues.

 

Later on, the medieval ethics start and the Catholic Church began to get involved, since it accepted all the themes of thought, actions and attitudes that were within religious morality. Thomas Achilles, a philosopher of medieval ethics, considered that to be happy one had to follow 3 orders: rationality, human government and Gods government.

 

The third epoch of ethics is called modern ethics, the philosopher Benedict Espinoza followed the method of natural science and identified the good with pleasure.

There was also the philosopher Thomas Hobbes

 

Finally, there are the contemporary ethics whose central theme is freedom. Soren Aabey said that freedom allowed humans to act as they wanted and voluntarily act well.

 

I really liked this topic because I could admire how it evolved and analyze how each philosopher had a different theory.