Distinguish between political issues and ethical issues?
Distinguish between political issues and ethical issues?
Ethics and politics are complex concepts, and there is a close relationship between them, which is revealed in the titles of the various studies that follow. Upon analyzing the texts I decided to raise some reflections that may appear diafficult, but I will make an effort to present them clearly. I begin with a small introduction about ethics and will then use illuminations from Hannah Aredent (2011, 2012) to discuss how one can think of politics and freedom in a community that seeks to be ethical. I reflected deeply to write this and I encourage the reader to question my reflections.
Ethics is a dimension that is inseparable from the daily life of men and women. This is clear if we examine its very etymology. Both the Greek term ethos, from which ethics is derived, as well as the Latin term mos, the source of the word moral, refer to the same reality: the customs that are established in daily relations between the people of a community. Even now, whenever a group comes together, its participants immediately begin to establish forms of living, how they will undertake their tasks, who will be responsible for what. Tacitly, implicit norms are established, responsibilities for each one, ways of living: these are the customs that become ethics and morals.
It is important to note that the moral or ethical dimension always pervades all human actions. This surprising phenomenon cannot be avoided. All types of action and conviviality intrinsically carry with them a valuative connotation, the presence of values. Values interpenetrate and possess us, it is values that always stimulate us to act.
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