An ethic supports a particular ethos. Behavior is judged ethically according to the ethos promoted or undermined. Ethics is relative.
Morality transcends ethics, and judges ethos and ethics.
According to this view, it is possible in principle to be ethically immoral by participating in bad ethos.
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Relativists believe morality is an illusion produced by ethical provincialism.
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Some kind of analogue exists here:
ethics : morals = phenomenon : noumenon
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My three most fundamental ethical principles:
- Listen to appeals.
- Keep your promises.
- Repent when you err.