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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Hooboy. You just had to ask this while I'm reading the Republic, didn't you? [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] Firstly, to grab the dictionary definition, (or in this case the glossary definition): Ethics: The branch of philosophy which studies the meaning of good and evil, right and wrong, and moral obligation. From a different source: The study, questioning, and justification of moral rules. Morals: The rules and attitudes that we live by, or are expected to live by. Morality really has nothing to do with religion, in the sense that to be moral one must be religious. Many moral theories are completely unreligious, such as Kant's or Plato's or Nietzsche's. Ethics, as technically understood, is that branch of philosophy concerned with these moral values. What are they, why do we have them, etc. In this usage, almost everyone has morals, but very few are ethicists. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] To answer the original question, which I sense was probably a tad facetious, morals are simply an expression of what any society values, and hence they will always exist so long as society exists. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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