DEVELOPMENT ETHICS AND ETHICS OF SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES

Author follows the development ethics analysing the ethical and moral issues of social and economic development in the world including the search for their solutions at different levels. He presents ethics of social consequences as one of the possible forms of research of the social and economic development of the post-communist countries of the Central and South-East Europe. Ethics of social consequences creates conditions for the individual development in an effort to find ways of individual ethical and moral development as well as for social development because it pays attention to research both the social consequences of policies, programs, etc. in society. Furthermore, it formulates the prevailing positive social consequences over the negative ones as a criterion of rightness and morality of actions, which has to be in accordance with respect for its other values (humanity, human dignity, moral right to life, justice, responsibility, tolerance, and duty).