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#4 “How can we know, if at all, that our behavior is ethical?” w.c. 1561 The questions of how to behave ethically and how to know what is and what is not ethical have plagued men and women for ages and for good reason. The difference between an ethical and unethical action are not always clear cut and even attempting to define what is ethical is a hardy pursuit. Even if hypothetically anything ethical will inherently be “good” or “right” and anything unethical leads to “evil” or “wrong”, the questions would still need to be answered; what is right, wrong, good and evil and does the society one lives in affect their conclusion. How do cognitive and emotional process, as well as any motives one may have, affect what they consider to be ethical? Is there a system or formula that can be used to decipher the ethicality of an action and once an action is taken is there a way to prove that it was ethical? By looking into these questions and others, one will find that there are in fact some universals, but in many cases classifying ethics becomes a nebulous problem of knowledge. Ethics is also known as a moral philosophy and customarily every religion and culture has guidelines and common b