2. Morality: “a set of rules of conduct held to be unconditionally valid”.
3. “Reasoned theory of good and evil, ethics”.
Ethics
From Greek to ethos, custom, and to èthos, home, habitual place, character.
“Since Aristotle, the term ethics has a double meaning. He designates à the once the science which trafficking from the morality from and this quality itself. We is best understood by using the term ethics to designate the science of morality and morality to designate the object of this science: life and moral behavior” (O. Höffe, Petit dictionnaire d’éthique).
Paul Ricoeur distinguishes the original ethical intention from the Moral Law: “I proposes [..} from distinguish between ethics and moral, from book the term of ethics for all the questioning that precedes the introduction of the idea of moral law and to designate by morality everything that, in the order of good and
bad, go to reports à from laws, from standards, from imperatives” (“Before the moral law, ethics”, 1985, 1990).
Jürgen Habermas reserves the term morality for public social ethics,
concerning what is right, and the term ethics for the subjective values of
individuals or communities, for what is good.
Source: Introduction générale à l’éthique, Professor Denis Müller, University of Lausanne, Faculty of Theology
Publication: 2002