General ethics and professional ethics

Abstract

The word "ethics" comes from Greek and has two meanings. The first comes from the term éthos, which means habit or custom. Subsequently, the expression 'ts' (ⴄθoç), which means way of being or character, originated from it. Aristotle considers both words to be inseparable, for from habits and customs it is that a way of being or personality develops in man.1 He is also the first to speak of an ethic as a specific branch of philosophy and to write a systematic treatise on it. Later through Latin this concept was translated under the expression mos, moris (from where the word "moral") came from, which is equivalent only to habit or custom.
Ethics and morals have in common the fact of keeping an eminently practical sense; however, ethics is a broader and richer concept than the moral word. In this way, morality can be understood as any set of rules, values, prohibitions and taboos from outside man, that is, that they are instilled in him or imposed on him by politics, social customs, religion or ideologies.