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Ethics also takes cognisance of beliefs as well as actions, and is interested in judgments not less than achievements

It deals, in short, with personality in its highest ranges of moral power and spiritual consciousness and seeks to interpret life by its greatest possibilities and loftiest attainments as they are revealed in Christ.

The moral attainments of the ancients are not to be regarded simply as 'splendid vices, but as positive achievements of good.

Ethics cannot, therefore, ignore the psychological processes of feeling, desiring and willing of the acting subject.

The aim of all philosophy, as Plato said, is just to correct the assumptions of the ordinary mind, and to grasp in their unity and cohesion the ultimate principles which the mind feels must be at the root of all reality.

We do not escape philosophy by refusing to think

Man this guy is wise

But while Politics is strictly concerned only with the outward condition of the state's well-being and the external order of {17} the community, Ethics seeks the internal good or virtue of mankind, and is occupied with an ideal society in which each individual shall be able to realise the true aim and meaning of life

When I dared question: "It is beautiful, But is it true?" Thy answer was, "In truth lives beauty.

But though both sciences have different aims they are occupied largely with the same emotions, and are connected by a common idealising purpose. In the deepest sense, what is good is beautiful and what is beautiful is good; and ultimately, in the moral and spiritual life, goodness and beauty coincide

In its narrower sense Aesthetics deals with beauty merely in an impersonal way; and its immediate object is not what is morally beautiful, but rather that which is beautiful in itself irrespective of moral considerations. Ethics, on the other hand, is concerned with personal worth as expressed in perfection of will and action

Aesthetics is the science of the laws of beauty, while Ethics is the science of the laws of the good. But in so far as Aesthetics deals with the emotions rather than the reason it comes into contact with Ethics in the psychological field.

Some writers, on this account, are disposed to regard Ethics as an art rather than a science, and indeed, like every normative science, it may be regarded as lying midway between them

Ethics and morality are not synonymous

Ethics, therefore, according to Aristotle is the science of character, character being understood to mean according to its etymology, customs or habits of conduct

"the impulse to know is only a phrase of the more general impulse to be and to act"

And finally, to name no other cause, there is a tendency in our day among all classes to divorce religion from life-to separate the sacred from the secular, and to regard worship and work as belonging to two entirely distinct realms of existence

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"The dogma which cannot be translated into duty is apt to be a vague abstraction"