Philosophers Need a Hobby

[falathrim]

Taking ethics training today. Came across this.

"The word ethics comes from the greek ETHIKA, meaning "custom" -- as in how we normally or should treat one another; the word morals comes from the latin MORES, meaning "custom" -- as in how we normally or should treat one another. For the past 2000 years, ethicists and philosophers have been trying to

Comments

[ovirginsaint]

..Why bother differentiating when they mean the SAME GODSDAMNED THING?? And if ethics and morals are just customs, then we can toss them out the window right? :D

[rhaella]

Plato would like a word with you, my dear.

Fortunately, Plato is dead.

[ovirginsaint]

Yes, I know. Because he seems the type that lacks any sense of humor. ;P

[rhaella]

Oh, you have no idea. DDDDDDDD:

On the plus side, he was a fantastic writer. Something of a self-hating poet, haha.

[rhaella]

Sometimes it is a hobby!

Well, you could possibly argue that the Greeks and the Romans had slightly different moral philosophies, and a difference could lie therein... but that's probably more philology than philosophy. :D