Ethics, Morality, and Justice: Examining Differences and Relations

This essay provides an overview of ethics, morality, and justice, defining each concept and exploring their relationships. Ethics are presented as moral principles guiding behavior, while morals concern themselves with right and wrong conduct. Law is defined as a system of rules enforced by a society. The essay highlights the differences in scope, with morality governing personal interactions, ethics guiding professional conduct, and law administering society as a whole. It argues that while ethical individuals should follow the law and moral individuals should be ethical, one cannot embody all three simultaneously. The discussion emphasizes that morals and ethics relate to right and wrong conduct, with ethics often derived from external sources and morals representing individual principles. Finally, the essay distinguishes morals and law by noting that law demands complete subjugation and regulates relations among individuals and the community.

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Ethics are regarded as moral principles, which administrate the behavior or conduct of
any particular individual or such activities in connection to the individual. Morals concern itself
with principles in connection to wrong and right conduct, and the badness or goodness
human personality and character. Law is considered to be the structure of rules, which is
recognized by any particular nation or society as modifying and managing the activities of the
members of such nation or society, and the structure may be appropriately implemented by the
levy of penalties (Darwall, 2017).
Morality administers personal or private communications and interactions. Ethics
administers professional communications and interactions. Law administers the entire society as
a whole, and the law frequently deals with communications and interactions among complete
strangers (Rohr, 2017).
If one is ethical then that individual shall accept and follow the law. If one is moral then
that individual shall be ethical. Also, if one is moral then that individual may accept and follow
the law. However, it must be mentioned that one shall never be all the three together.
Morals and Ethics relate to conduct or comportment that is “wrong” or “right’. Even
though on certain occasions they are utilized interchangeably, but they are regarded as different.
Ethics may be referred to as the rules that are forwarded by any kind of external source, for
instance, the ideologies of religions or the ‘codes of conduct’ at workplaces. Morals may be
referred to the private principles of any particular individual concerning wrong and right (Dutell
& Taylor, 2017).

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Morals and Law diverge because a complete subjugation to its commands and rules is
demanded by law. Law is heteronymous. Law controls and standardizes relations among
individuals and relation with the community (May, 2017).

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References
Darwall, S. (2017). The foundations of morality: virtue, law, and obligation. The Cambridge.
Dutelle, A. W., & Taylor, R. S. (2017). Ethics for the public service professional. Crc Press.
May, L. (Ed.). (2017). Applied ethics: A multicultural approach. Routledge.
Rohr, J. (2017). Ethics for bureaucrats: An essay on law and values. Routledge.