ABSTRACT
The philosophical study of ethics concerns the nature of good and bad, right and wrong, justice and injustice. People often think that ethical questions are inseparable from religious ones. During childhood, many of us had our moral training and our religious training mixed together. In adulthood, disagreements about some ethical questions sometimes reflect differences in religious doctrine. There is variation in ethical opinions; people sometimes disagree about whether a given action is right or wrong. Divine Command Theory says that an act is right or wrong because and only because God says that it is. Ethical relativism says that what is right or wrong is determined by the society that inhabit. The study of ethics often involves discussion of principles that tell people that they should have acted in a way different from the way they did act; for example, sometimes these principles require people to be less selfish and more altruistic.
