Ethics is an activity and area of inquiry. It is the activity of understanding moral values, resolving moral issues and the area of study resulting from that activity.
When we speak of ethical problems, issues and controversies, we mean to distinguish them from non moral problems.
Ethics is used to refer to the particular set of beliefs, attitudes and habits that a person or group displays concerning moralities.
Ethics and its grammatical variants can be used as synonyms for ‘morally correct’.
