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#ethic

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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.


Charles Van Doren


#aristotle #describe #ethics #happiness #his

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.


Soleil Moon Frye


#ethics #important #sense

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison.


Simone de Beauvoir


#existentialism #morality #freedom

You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why. "Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out." "The interest alone is going to kill you." "What do you charge?" "Three hundred eighty-seven percent." "Is that ethical?" "It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan.


Darynda Jones


#ethics #reyes-farrow #dating

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.


Hans Kung


#bases #different #ethical #evil #good

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.


Margaret Mead


#based #behavior #cowardly #eternal #ethical

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.


Bill Moyers


#depend #ethics #lives #most #other

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.


Roger Mudd


#compromise #course #depends #ethical #itself

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.


Gaylord Nelson


#culture #environmental #environmental issue #ethic #important

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.


Rachael Ray


#become #circumstances #continuously #ethic #good






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