Can business ethics and political ethics solve the problems in economics and politics caused by people's pursuit of economic and political power throughout their lives? This article, which we built around this question, basically aims to present an analysis of the ethical violations and problems encountered in economy and politics, two important areas of human experience, and the ethical emphasis developed to prevent them. In economics; Working, doing business, trading and pursuing pure profit and adopting these as ends in themselves raise a wide variety of ethical problems in society and business life. There have been some recommendations of business ethics to solve these problems. On the other hand, in politics; We also face problems caused by the notion that public morality can be ignored, lies can be told when necessary, and any path that leads to political goals can be considered legitimate. In order to solve these problems, some ethical principles and rules are being tried to be established under the title of political ethics. This article argues that it is not possible to fully solve moral violations and problems in the fields of economy and politics with business ethics and political ethics. Because the understanding of morality / ethical theory and human understanding underlying these problems is problematic. Utilitarianism, which is dominant in English-speaking countries and is also the moral understanding of capitalism, is an understanding that does not see the virtues, which are the backbone of morality, as fundamental because it accepts social interest and pleasure as fundamental. Again, the human understanding that sees human beings as beings based on ambition and egoism, that regards man is a wolf to man, and that is based on the motto that big fish eats small fish, is an understanding of humanity that excludes altruism, which is characteristic of morality. If we want to fundamentally solve ethical problems in the fields of economics and politics, we need an approach that considers virtues and altruism as essentials. In the article, the fundamental problems related to business and political ethics, as well as the ethical theory and human understanding that lie at their root, will be analyzed and some proposals for solutions will be presented.