Ethics eBook

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Are derived from a Greek word ethos which originally meant customs, usages, especially those belonging to some group as distinguished from another, and later came to mean disposition, character. They are thus like the Latin word moral, from mores, or the German sittlich, from Sitten. As we shall see, it was in customs, ethos, mores, that the moral or ethical began to appear. For customs were not merely habitual ways Of acting; they were ways approved by the group or society. To act contrary to the customs of the group brought severe dis approval. This might not be formulated in precisely our.