Ethics

O. Drobnickij

pp. 185-199

in: Thomas J. Blakeley (ed), Themes in Soviet Marxist philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1975

Abstract

Ethics is the philosophical science which studies morality in general and morals as one of the most important aspects of the life-activity of man, as a specific phenomenon of history, and as a form of social consciousness. Ethics explains the place of morality among the other social relations and analyzes its nature, internal structure and role as a social institution. It studies the origins and development of morals in the history of mankind and it provides theoretical grounding for a particular system of ethics.