“The fact that we usually treat matters of good and evil in courses in ‘morals’ or ‘ethics’ may indicate how little we know about them, for morals comes from mores and ethics from ethos, the Latin and the Greek words for customs and habit, the Latin word being associated with rules of behavior, whereas the Greek is derived from habitat.”
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