Professional ethics codes

The aim of the paper is to pick out the grounds of the fact, that more and more professional ethics codexes are permanently being formulated. The auth or (she) highlights the essence, the meaning and the functions of professio nal ethics codexes, seeing them as the institutionalized forms of professio nal ethics, which is a part of applied ethics. She puts stress on the conne ctions between the society, the profession and its ethical codex. The philo sophical and ethical grounds of the professional ethics codexes are examine d as well.