Quote Originally Posted by marct View Post

One of the main concerns I have with much of the current debate on "ethics" is the conflation of "ethics" and "morality". While there is no general agreement on the differences (if any) between the two terms, I have always been in favour of one line of argument that defines ethics as "right action" defined by the laws of reality and "morality" as right action defined by a particular society or culture at a particular point in time.
Although it may seem like splitting hairs, here are the definitions I used in my dissertation:

Morality: Morality is the aspect of human judgment that is concerned with the overriding evaluation of actions, values, and character. Morality is reason-based, prescriptive, objective, and autonomous. Morality is concerned with the issue of “what should be.”

Ethics: The term ethics is from the Greek word ethos, which means character. Ethics is the study of morality – what is good, bad, right or wrong in a moral sense.