Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.
Ethics to me is very important.
Ethics are pre-determined and a matter of discovery, not a evolved concept.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.