Who are some of the most ethical people in history?

Answer 1

Anyone who makes an effort to do the right thing every day of their life.

Of course, they should not fail in the most obvious ways. Minor mistakes and

no major ones. Gandhi, Jimmy Carter, and Mother Theresa are a few that

merit consideration. Unfortunately most people fall short. Most people are

not evil, but they do fall short in some important ways. People can be redeemed,

but they have to feel remorse. We are too quick to judge most of the time. We lift some people impossibly high, and drag some others too far down. The only thing that God made that is perfect is the skies, the ocean, the trees....

Answer 2

Bartolome de las Casas, a Spanish monk who accompanied explorers in the 16th-century, quickly grew unhappy, even horrified, by brutally coercive demands that colonial settlers placed on indigenous Americans, and their punitive treatments—horrific tortures and executions—for resistant or uncooperative Indians. Their status was essentially enslavement, and so Bartolome freed his own slaves and returned to Spain to lodge passionate ptotests with King Ferdinand. To his credit, Ferdinand then permitted a debate, in the city of Valladolid, over ethical limits for Spain’s colonists in the Americas. Today regarded as the first moral examination of Imperialism and racist colonial genocide in the Americas, The Valladolid Debates are a heroic watershed for the sanctity of human life, and the rights of aboriginal peoples, both the Uncontacted and those who endured First Contact. He was one of history’s first voices to assert the universal nature of human equality and liberty. Some historians are critical of Bartolome for his one-time suggestion that Africans be used as slaves instead of Indians; he later condemned that idea and apologized for it.

Answer 3

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister and supporter of the German Resistance against the Nazis, wrote a number of compelling works on contemporary theology before his arrest and execution in 1945 for association in a plot to kill Hitler a year earlier. His executioners reportedly revived Bonhoeffer after hanging him slowly enough not to kill him, and repeated this over and over, maximizing his death agony as many times that corporal vitality for a man of his constitution could tolerate. The guards were entertained by this barbaric spectacle but inmates forced to observe it could hardly remain conscious through the nauseating gratuity of the brutality, and later, could only with great difficulty describe the unspeakable extremity of Dietrich’s last life moments. When Christians on the Religious Right today choose to express their interpretation of Christian love, courage, justice and morality, I never, ever see actions that resemble Rev. Bonhoeffer’s, or for that matter, words that sound like the lessons of humility and unqualified love that Jesus of Nazareth left the world. I’m grateful to have the example of Dietrich’s incredible, heroic love

Answer 4

Some of the most ethical people in history include Mahatma Gandhi, known for his nonviolent resistance and commitment to social justice; Nelson Mandela, who fought against apartheid and promoted reconciliation and unity in South Africa; and Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to serving the poorest of the poor with compassion and kindness.