1. SUBJECT 1: Ethics as philosophical science. 1. Ethics. Morals. Moral. 2. Types of ethics. 3. Main schools of ethical knowledge.

2. Ethics – philosophical science which object are the morals.

3. Subject of ethics are the morals. The moral is objective estimates of acts of people, the high principles (for example bible precepts).

4. Moral «golden rule»: «don't do anything wrong to anyone so you wouldn't get in back» or «we should treat others as we would have them treat us».

5. 2. Types of ethics. Types of ethics: classical ethical theories, metaethics, professional, applied ethics. The structure of ethics are the following: 1) The history of ethics – shows a picture of emergence and development of ethics, ethical doctrines, recreates evolution of morals; 2) The theory of morals –the principles and categories of ethics, the mechanism of morals’ action; 3) Normative ethics –the doctrine of the highest moral values, moral standards and rules of communication; 4) Applied ethics – the universal moral norms and the principles of behaviour’ persons on work.

6. Main schools of ethical knowledge. In the history of ethics allocate two concepts : empirical and idealistic. The empirical tendency includes naturalistic, cosmological and sociological schools. 1) naturalistic schools brought moral out of human nature. There are: -the hedonism - the evdemonizm (Epicurus, Democritus). -the utilitarizm (pragmatism) (Jon Stewart Mill). 2) cosmological schools brought morals out of the nature in general: - physiophilosophical ethics understood morals as a special case of the general world natural law (Logos at Heraclitus, heavenly harmony at Pythagoras, the Sky at Confucius). The purpose of the person is joined world harmony. -evolutionary ethics understood morals as a phase of biological evolution (Spencer). 3) sociological schools brought morals out of the facts of public life. (The theory of the public contact, The theory of Retional Egoism).