The Contemporary Ethical Challenges and Humanity

Abstract

Currently, humanity is facing several ethical challenges due to a lack of proper understanding of ethical approaches. Generally, scholars and intellectuals have interpreted ethics in terms of the science of morality, which has defeated the true purpose of ethics. This paper, based on a qualitative method of content analysis, argues that ethics should be understood in its original sense as a branch of philosophy which connotes a rational search for understanding the truth and reality of anything in terms of good and bad implications. It is contended that due to the speculative and conjectural nature of philosophy, or pure rational and empirical approach is overlooked for the study of the needs of humanity. This paper explores and explains a few important ethical challenges that are related to humanity at large and disregard of national and racial demarcations. Finally, it concludes that humanity needs a new and fresh perspective on its problems from a pure ethical point of view. If an ethical approach to the study of the problem of humanity is adopted, most of the problems, such as the environmental crisis and the poverty crisis, can be solved.