"The comparative study of ethics, which is apt in its earlier stages to impress the student with a bewildering sense of the diversity of moral judgments, ends rather by impressing them with a more fundamental and far-reaching uniformity. Though there is wide divergence as to theories of ethics, there is a fundamental agreement among men regarding the general lines of conduct desirable in public and private life. This ideal governing our free actions is common to the race. It may be defined as human conduct in so far as it is freely subordinated to the ideal of what is right and fitting. Morality is antecedent to ethics: it denotes those concrete activities of which ethics is the science. It is necessary at the outset of this article to distinguish between morality and ethics, terms not seldom employed synonymously. 104236 Catholic Encyclopedia - Morality George Hayward Joyce
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