2 ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY THE PRIMARY FOCUS of this book is on ethics. Quite simply, the study of ethics considers what ought to be, not what is. We do not need to evaluate what we ought to do if we always did it in the course of our daily lives. Ethics describes normative behavior: what we should do in a particular situation. In modern society, the words ethics and morality are used interchangeably. However, there are distinctions between the two. Ethics comes from the Greek word ethos, meaning a
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