“Aristotle filled out further details on the foundation laid by Plato, founded the disciplines of logic and metaphysics, elaborated individual and social ethics, and discussed fundamental issues of . The later systems centered around the attempt to find satisfaction in human living by self-control, refined enjoyment, or suspension of judgment of ultimate problems.”
“An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.”
“One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.”
“If you’re interested in ethics, you could do worse than think in terms of geological time.”
“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself.”
“Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession.”
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Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics.
