THEORETICAL GROUNDS OF THE CATEGORY OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of setting theoretical grounds of the category of professional ethics in psychological and pedagogical literature. The article provides examples of defining the term “professional eth- ics”. The term “professional ethics” is given in comparison with coherent terms, “general ethics” and “applied ethics” in particular. Diverse approaches to analysis of the term “professional ethics” in scientific research are outlined. An attempt is made to provide analytical survey of understanding professional ethics as one of pedagogical categories.
On the basis of the given survey the article searches for approaches to understanding professional ethics of a navigator, who appears to be a representative of one of those professions, to which heightened moral requirements are applied due to high level of responsibility for the ship, crew, cargo and environmental wellbeing in constant conditions of physical and emotional stress.