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Nonsense.

Ethics is a topic which is discussable but only meaningful when placed in the context of "virtues". Hence, virtue-based ethics.

Well-defined and well-discussed aspect of moral theology, at least in Catholic circles.

OK-

Try this. Look up ethics in Wikipedia and see how many times God or scripture is referenced as a source for defining right and wrong. Now look up morals and do the same.

Do this one. When sitting in any ethics training in college, government or corporate America, listen carefully and again determine what is referenced as the source for defining right and wrong. With ethics they will mention laws, policies and secular philosophers/philosophy. When morals are mentioned, outside of ethics training, you'll hear references to God.

Bottom line: in colloquial language (except in those cases as you mention, and there are some others- I went to a Jesuit college), the nuance difference between morals and ethics is that ethics is the teaching of right and wrong without any mention of God, the Bible, Jesus, etc.

C'mon, Red. You can't be serious. You're basically saying that Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics had no effect on St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae which no effect on Christian moral thinking and the Western culture/worldview.

The English language and culture evolve. Besides looking at the common definitions or where they derive their ideas of right and wrong from (today), let's look at who these new post modern secular preachers of ethics are? Where do you think most so called ethicists stand? Take a look at them, may that be in the media or academia, they are secular overwhelmingly.

Like children that speak their own language, a mix of what they make up and learn from us, we sometimes have our own meanings to words, yet society might see it differently. The words ethics and morals have a nuance difference in how they are used and what they really mean, as used in government, business and academia. Ethics uses a modern utilitarian approach, morals is dentological. One is situationally dependent, the other absolute. One strives for consistency, is based on a doctrine and derives its idea of right and wrong from scripture; the other refers to man made laws, man made policies, men with titles in philosophy, ethics, psychology or sociology.

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