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In its narrower sense Aesthetics deals with beauty merely in an impersonal way; and its immediate object is not what is morally beautiful, but rather that which is beautiful in itself irrespective of moral considerations. Ethics, on the other hand, is concerned with personal worth as expressed in perfection of will and action
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Ethics also takes cognisance of beliefs as well as actions, and is interested in judgments not less than achievements
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It deals, in short, with personality in its highest ranges of moral power and spiritual consciousness and seeks to interpret life by its greatest possibilities and loftiest attainments as they are revealed in Christ.
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The moral attainments of the ancients are not to be regarded simply as 'splendid vices, but as positive achievements of good.
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Ethics cannot, therefore, ignore the psychological processes of feeling, desiring and willing of the acting subject.
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The aim of all philosophy, as Plato said, is just to correct the assumptions of the ordinary mind, and to grasp in their unity and cohesion the ultimate principles which the mind feels must be at the root of all reality.
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We do not escape philosophy by refusing to think
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But while Politics is strictly concerned only with the outward condition of the state's well-being and the external order of {17} the community, Ethics seeks the internal good or virtue of mankind, and is occupied with an ideal society in which each individual shall be able to realise the true aim and meaning of life
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When I dared question: "It is beautiful, But is it true?" Thy answer was, "In truth lives beauty.
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