Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Ethics, grade: 85%, University of Strathclyde, language: English, abstract: The origin of the word "ethics" is derived from the Greek word " thos", which, in a more precise translation, might be better rendered as "image". The science of ethics, as it became established in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, was concerned with the search for absolute standards of conduct guiding decisions and actions,...