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What are the differences between Chinese and western ethical thoughts? Urgent!

Moral science. Also known as moralism and moral philosophy. In the west, the word ethics comes from Greek, which means customs, habits, character and so on. Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, first endowed him with the meaning of ethics and virtue. The book Nicokal Ethics is the earliest ethics monograph in the West. The word ethics was not used in ancient China, and it was widely used after19th century.

Ethics takes moral phenomena as the research object, including not only moral consciousness (such as personal moral feelings), but also moral activities (such as moral behavior) and moral norms.

* * * Liang Qichao pointed out an important aspect of the ethical differences between China and the West, that is, China's ethics values private morality and ignores public morality, that is, family ethics values social ethics and national ethics; Western ethics is relatively complete. In contrast, it pays more attention to social ethics and national ethics, that is, public morality is more important than private morality.