Universal Values: Between Morality and Ethics unknowns

"He has no moral authority to speak it"; "... ethics has been tarnished, "" ... who is he to talk about it ";" I'm shaken morale ...". We are tired of hearing it on the news. We no longer want or hear about politics (stuffed with CPI `s), economics, social issues and crime. But what is ethics and morals? What are the values we give to them? What do they mean when they talk about these? Differentiate between ethics and morals is not something very simple to understand and there is not much consensus on that. Well, etymologically speaking, both have the same effect: ethics comes from the Greek ethos (habits), and morality comes from the Latin word mores, which also means the same thing, customs. Both refer, therefore, originally, traditional customs of certain communities that are viewed by its members as values and obligations. Defenses are found that the difference lies in the fact that ethics is the realization of morality, say, ethics would be the 'way of putting into practice the moral values'; or that ethics refers to public life and individual moral behavior. Philosophically speaking, it seems more usual to understand that ethics as a theory of morality, ie as referring to moral customs and natural values of certain crops, ethics rationally studying social behavior. The ethics would be a rational foundation of morals and values, would be a critical analysis of rational norms, customs and social values, while morals would therefore be a natural or imposed by a dominant power (political, economic, religious, and so on. ) which is merely assimilated and followed as unquestionable dogma, which need not be justified. This is something cultural. Ethics seeks to rationally consider what counts or should count, and can challenge even the very cultural values (moral). The fact that Muslim women wear the Burqa (typical costume) or still see in some African communities is common root out the clitoris of women so that they do not have sexual pleasure. These examples are rationally unethical, but this is a purely moral question, is something steeped in those cultures, which is followed without question, becoming dogma. The ethic is critical and seeks to establish fundamental values. If it is the rational study of human society on what is good or what is bad, it is the philosophy focused on the practical behavior of men. There is a crisis in ethics, that is, a disbelief of their own ability to reason in support of values. We do not know to distinguish what is cultural and what can be scientific, moral or ethical, right or wrong. We are on the verge of chaos and know what is right and choose to do, helps us move away from this abyss and do not lose the north, is that one day, we had one.