Ethic vs Mores - What's the difference?
ethic | mores |
a set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
the morality of an action
A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock , Bantam Books, page 99:
* 1973 , (Philippa Foot), “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by : , ISBN 0385033443, page 165:
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As nouns the difference between ethic and mores
is that ethic is a set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual while mores is jackdaw.As an adjective ethic
is moral, relating to morals.ethic
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Alternative forms
* ethick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- I think the golden rule is a great ethic .
Derived terms
* ethic of reciprocity * evolutionary ethic * Protestant ethic * work ethicSee also
* ethic dativeExternal links
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*mores
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(wikipedia mores)Alternative forms
* moeursEtymology 1
From the (etyl) .Noun
(en-plural noun)- All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past?—?a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores , political and religious restrictions.
- It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos'' with its plural ''mores'', and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the ''mores ?—?the rules of behaviour?—?of a society.