A Study of the Ethics of Bullies with Graduates of Theravada Buddhism

Abstract

This article aims 1) to study the ethics, 2) to study the ethics of the fool and the wise in Theravada Buddhism, and 3) to analyze the ethics of the fool and the wise in Theravada Buddhism by studying documents and presenting them by means of analytical descriptive method. The results of the study found that: Ethics is a science that deals with the principles of human behavior, how each person acts towards themselves and society, whether it is right or wrong. It is a rule used to decide human problems, which is divided into 3 branches: 1) Metaethics studies issues concerning the nature of moral concepts and judgments or ethical values. 2) Normative ethics studies the creation of standards or norms for behavior and their relationship to general theories, focusing on the highest good of human life and criteria for judging human behavior as right, wrong, good, bad. 3) Applied ethics is the application of normative theory to practical moral problems. Ethics of the Fool and the Scholar in Theravada Buddhism Ethics of the Scholar is divided into 3 levels: 1) Ethics of the Scholar at the Primary Level, including the Five Precepts or Pancasila, the practice of abstaining from evil. 2) Ethics of the Scholar at the Middle Level, abstaining from the Ten Unwholesome Actions. 3) The ethics of high-level scholars is an ethics that aims to develop scholars into noble people, consisting of the Noble Eightfold Path. As for the wicked morality, it means the morality that makes people wicked, such as not being ashamed of sin, not being afraid of the consequences of evil karma. Analysis of the ethics of the fool and the wise in Theravada Buddhism, there are complete differences and opposites, for example, the wise will practice the kusala kammapatha (the path of good deeds), while the fool will practice the 10 akusala kammapatha. (The path of evil karma, the path of doing evil) can be called the side of good and the side of evil, or the side of righteousness and unrighteousness clearly.