Professional Ethics
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| Dr. Andrés Merejo |
By Manuel
Espinal
Joint analysis
on:
Ethics
and morals
Philosophy
and power
Ideology,
myth and truth
Language
and life
This writing is a joint analysis on
the above topics which have been of interest for human beings since ancient
times due to the different interpretations they have been given through the
history.
On this occasion, two people of
different nationalities; the author of the book “Conversaciones en el lago,”
Andrés Merejo and a Spanish man, who met by accident at a lake in New York City,
address each one of the above topics from a philosophical viewpoint. And, from
their opinions or arguments, I will philosophize about such topics.
Starting with ethics and morals, the
two thinkers let us understand that the first one (ethics) is related with
personal development through projects of life that tend to satisfy personal
desires through pleasures. Through the ethics, the individual assumes particular
behaviors or commandments in order to reach self-fulfillment; rejecting failure
and highlighting what comes to be pleasant for him/her. With respect to the
morals, it has to do with a set of rules, customs or mores, and values socially
or institutionally imposed which are used by people to design or create a guide
of behaviors that help them to differentiate what is good or bad.
To illustrate the previous said, we can have a case in
which a journalist writes and publishes a false story about a public official
from a reliable source, and because of that the journalist can be prosecuted
and brought to justice. In such case, despite the journalist realizes that
he/she has been lied and that the information he/she received were not true,
this professional will never say who was the source that provided the wrong or
false information. Thus, the journalist is professionally ethic, since he/she
achieved what he/she wanted (the news) and he/she is protecting his/her source
as it is said in journalism ethics; but the journalist is socially immoral
because he/she published a false story (he/she lied) in which was affected the
integrity of a public official.
As to philosophy and power, philosophers cannot be
isolated from power or considered above it, since the power is everywhere;
within society, and the philosopher is part of such a society.
Due to the level of wisdom of the philosophers and the
diversity of power, they can contribute to form a more effective power.
The third point of this analysis is ideology, myth and
truth; and based on the author and his friend Zeli, these concepts must be
concatenated. First, ideology is a particular system of
ideas used by a determined group of people to convince or induce others to
accept such ideas as an absolute truth which derives from the facts
that a person or group of people have lived or experienced, for which this
group of people appeals to a tool whose name is myth as a means of
promotion of the narrations that give support to the ideology over the years.
An example of this can be found in the political
battles or fights between capitalism and socialism; every of them trying to
impose their absolute truth by disqualifying or discrediting each other. Despite
the socialism as counterpart of capitalism collapsed after the fall of Berlin
wall (November 1989), it does not means that ideologies are over, but
capitalism is trying to be imposed as a unique universal ideology.
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