Abstract
The human species is the youngest one among living primates. Its encephalic conformation differentiates it from all other living species, especially on account of the presence of language and of logical-conceptual thought. However, greater than all the hallmarks of humanity are the need to place its life within a finalistic plan and the capacity of choice which drives it to the formulation and assumption of values. Hence, human life is an ethical life; the “ethical system” is defined as a system of values that we call “ethical principles”. Although an ethical system is originally founded on the genetic code, it cannot be reduced to a biological basis since it is also a set of answers to all the questions formulated by Man during his anthropological history. Human behaviour has, beyond its rational components, irrational ones, and those even more complex belonging to the affectional, sentimental and expressive spheres. The presence of ethics represents the rational component; thus the ethical way becomes t...
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