Ethics is all about our becoming and feeling responsible about everything that is around us. We are responsible only when we appreciate everything that is ethical and denounce all that is not ethical around us. I would like our membership to ensure that they always go for the stricter interpretation, foregoing the liberal one wherever and whenever they realise a presence of two interpretations on a matter of professional interest, despite both being legal. Such a courageous display of moral conduct will inspire not only generations of our professionals, but also those from other walks of life.
Thomas More, in his Utopia, raises the same question when he asks: Having distinguished between three types of ‘good’, psychological, physiological, and environmental, they proceed to ask whether the term is strictly applicable to all of them or only to the first. Our past-President Shri R. C. Cooper also echoes More while writing the first preface to the ICAI’s Code of Ethics: …practice of professional ethics is largely a matter of conscience and the determination of members to distinguish between what is right and wrong. Ethics is a state of the mind. He goes on to explain: …there may be some acts which, though may not strictly fall under one of the items of the Schedule, may be one which may not be proper by any moral or ethical standards. Very intimately and yet with sincere concerns, he advises all of us to act in the larger interests of the Institute, and to search our hearts and conscience whenever in doubt.
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Thomas More, in his Utopia, raises the same question when he asks: Having distinguished between three types of ‘good’, psychological, physiological, and environmental, they proceed to ask whether the term is strictly applicable to all of them or only to the first. Our past-President Shri R. C. Cooper also echoes More while writing the first preface to the ICAI’s Code of Ethics: …practice of professional ethics is largely a matter of conscience and the determination of members to distinguish between what is right and wrong. Ethics is a state of the mind. He goes on to explain: …there may be some acts which, though may not strictly fall under one of the items of the Schedule, may be one which may not be proper by any moral or ethical standards. Very intimately and yet with sincere concerns, he advises all of us to act in the larger interests of the Institute, and to search our hearts and conscience whenever in doubt.
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