Throughout our existence and our daily walk, the word ethics resounds, from our mothers complaining to a professional, establishment among others; even on the radio and the news listening and watching as the reporters or drivers talking about the lack of ethics of some of our leaders or famous people who have a lack of ethics. The question that may arise in my head is the following: What is ethics? The Greeks define it as that state in which the human being can distinguish between what is good and what is bad, through their wills and the consequences that emanate from them, and from there determine behaviors that can help regulate the coexistence in a certain environment can go from the sphere at home, with our parents; siblings and relatives.We began to use ethics as children, as friends, as students; professionals and throughout our lives as people.
We can intuit from what was previously established that ethics is a social construct, which each one is forming depending on the environment and the place where it is developed since, in different countries, in different towns or states; ethics or the parts that comprise it are usually different. This due to its history, culture, religion and other aspects that directly influence the construction of it.
To understand the challenges of ethics in this century, it is necessary to understand the historical antecedents, with which we must make an analysis of how these have been transformed over the years and which challenges have arisen that we will enunciate later in this essay.
The genesis of ethics has its origin in ancient Greece, in those times the Greeks full of mythologies, gave rise to the birth of ethics; the myth of Prometheus and Pandora. The world becomes desolate, men die of cold, meat is eaten raw, in those days Prometheus steals fire from the Gods; which enrages Zeus and this sends to punish Prometheus, with a box which contained all the evils. The brother of Prometheus opens the box and unleashes all the evils of the world and the question here is the origin of evil, this undoubtedly makes us wonder why if we can do the right thing, we don't? Or why do we sometimes do evil consciously or unconsciously? This is how myths gave rise to philosophy in the first place and later to give rise to ethics, but already as an object of study.
Speaking of Greeks and their myths there are also (as we had already spoken), philosophers who were concerned with the dilemmas of life, about good and evil, the person as being. One of the main scholars of ethics in ancient Greece was Socrates, although he did not leave any writing it is known that he is one of the forerunners with his ethical intellectualism which basically consists in that, to do good, it is necessary to know what is and what Socrates demonstrated his walk using a deductive method which helped to understand most of the problems that were raised.
Later Aristotle and Plato thought that ethics was rather something that led you to reflect with the practice of actions, due to the composition they thought of man, it was the body and the soul, in that sense the human being was immortal and His immortal part was precisely the one that was unsatisfied with everything that he could not achieve, because all his desires that he proposed is immensely difficult and this vision of ethics that was owned until the arrival of Christianity.
Before the arrival of Christianity, the conception of ethics is modified and we now have the center of this in all these theological questions taken from the Bible, which basically dictate the behaviors that human beings should adopt, sometimes taken literally and at other times distorted, they limit the human being to be strictly repressed since he is subjected to actions that may not be his will and that he may not even understand; When he seeks answers, those who must give answers, answers that do not satisfy, "but the wrath of God will fall on you if you question his designs." For this reason, many remain silent and those who do not die tortured in the name of the truth.
For later centuries there were currents or thinkers who modified or gave a somewhat different definition to what ethics will be, the truth is that despite so many definitions and so much study, the truth is that the human being in its full nature It is selfish; even the best man in the world is. I mention this because from his first steps in this, what we call the world was not endowed with great intellect and wisdom, but on the contrary; He was responsible for acquiring his own knowledge, he was responsible for surviving by his own hand. See for yourself and perhaps your primary circle (Your family).All this has remained in the collective unconscious and throughout the history of humanity it has been recorded to such an extent that human beings will begin to regress what would lead to the extinction of man at some point.
It is true that it is said that the human being is a sociable being, however, for that reason he does not stop being selfish, he does not stop satisfying his primary needs, just caring about himself and his little environment. The rest does not matter if I am well, if my family is well. This way of thinking seen from my own point of view is a bit short compared to what life has taught me, since in each one of the human beings there is a similarity between one and the other not only for the fact of being humans, but also because we are mirrors where in the other we find things that also inhabit us. So why then if we are equal, of the same conditions, why not help each other? Why not seek a common good?Because of the above: Selfishness and that we have stopped seeing our fellow man for what he is: A human being just like us with his deficiencies, with everything he can become. We have become slaves of our own defense mechanisms, immersed in our artificial paradises, which lead us to loneliness and destruction.
That is why human selfishness is the main challenge to overcome, in it most evils and human discontent are unleashed. Because of its history, because despite the fact that so many philosophers have theorized, about ethics it is important not only to talk about it, but to put it into practice. Because the word is important and has its constructive or destructive power when it becomes actions and it is our responsibility to coordinate what is thought, with whatever it is, acts; that is to say, have coherence.
Another challenge that ethics must assume is to see the human being as what a human being is.In recent times, due to the great technological and thought revolutions they have led to a postmodernist era, where the human being becomes a number more than just producing and if he does not produce, if he does not acquire properties he is nobody. We must see people as people, who feel, who wish, who learn, have limitations, but still struggle to live; Maybe not in the way expected or in the way that society dictates, however, they do it without any guidance other than the experience and learning that they have been collecting over time. It is important to reach out to each other as if we were helping ourselves, as if we were helping our family members and the best gift we can give ourselves as human beings, as what we are.
Finally, I consider that another of the challenges of ethics is that professionals love their profession and that they innovate everything, everything they work and achieve is for the benefit of humanity.
It is our responsibility as professionals to get involved not only in things that have to do with our career, it is necessary to actively participate in society, re-educating people and ensuring the protection of our rights creating a two-level effect, since in that meaning a more educated society allows growth that benefits everyone.
To conclude, we can say that ethics is a vital part of the life of the human being and it is extremely essential to live without ethics, if we want to be people of quality and not of quantity. People committed to living a life thinking about love about what they do and above all being consistent.
