Here is a list of writings and reflections that can be found on this blog:

Look to Your Left and to Your Right – You are not Alone
How are You Trending?
Waiting

Ethics: A short summary                  

 

The discipline dealing with what is good and bad or right

and wrong or with moral duty and obligation. Webster’s Third International Dictionary, Unabridged, 1993 (c) Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pg. 780.

            The Greek states, competitive with the Persian culture, pre-dated in the local vicinity by the Macedonians, and post-dated by the Roman and Persian culture, provide some historical perspective. If the reader wishes to cast the net further afield, they may be surprised to find the universality of ethics by many separate and distinct cultures.

            For now, and in keeping with a Greco-Roman theme, Plato once stated:

 

                        (Just or light) can mean: observant of custom or of duty, righteous;

                        fair, honest; legally right, lawful; what is due to or from a person,

rights; what we ought to do. The Republic, Oxford University Press, 1945 Francis MacDonald Cornford, Litt, D., F.B.A., Pg. 1.

 

One of these verses is of special interest, “what we ought to do”.  Is this not why we have regrets, or reservations about our conduct? If you do what you think you ought to have done, you likely do not have regrets. And the contrary is also true.

            A later Roman, also a Christian, in discussing the role of ethics provides an apt summary of the relevant importance of ethics in our lives.  St Augustine wrote:

                        He that is good is free, though he be a slave, he that is evil

                        Is a slave, though he be a king. The City of God, 1V (427 A.D.)

            Ethics, and the application of the same, is not a remote philosophical topic.

Rather, it is a most personal and life relevant topic.  With the right understanding of how

you developed your own ethics, and with the desire to truly be aware of your ethical

make-up, you are starting down the path to a truly well lived and meaningful life.