As part of REVA Business School, Distinguished Lecture series, the school had organised a lecture on “Importance of Nurturing Credible Administration on the Pillars of Ethics and Legality” on 24th January 2023.
The speaker, Dr Iyer is a barrister and academic based in Northern Ireland. started with highlighting the difference between ethics and legality. Ethics is intermittently connected with moral. Ethics is universal in nature whereas moral is more subjective in nature. Ethics is not connected with religion as it is applied universally. Ethics can be subjective when it is related to individual as it represents one’s own consciousness about what is right or wrong. Ethics can be objective when it is related to society as a whole. Nowadays ethics is gaining more and more formal recognition across the globe in many areas such as medicine, biotechnology, media, abortion and many more. There are two school of thoughts in terms of existence of ethics among human beings, one is that ethics comes from within and another school of thought says that it can be taught. The reason why educational institutions across the globe have a course on ethics is because they believe in second school of thought.