Moral vs. Ethos: What's the Difference?
Moral and Ethos Definitions
Moral
Of or concerned with the judgment of right or wrong of human action and character
Moral scrutiny.
A moral quandary.
Ethos
The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement
"They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos" (Anthony Burgess).
Moral
Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior
A moral lesson.
Ethos
The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
Moral
Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous
A moral life.
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Ethos
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
Moral
Arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong
A moral obligation.
Ethos
(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
Moral
Having psychological rather than physical or tangible effects
A moral victory.
Moral support.
Ethos
The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.
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Moral
Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the actual evidence
A moral certainty.
Ethos
The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character - character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people - rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; - opposed to pathos.
Moral
The lesson or principle contained in or taught by a fable, a story, or an event.
Ethos
(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era;
The Greek ethos
Moral
A concisely expressed precept or general truth; a maxim
Likes to follow the moral "To each, his own.".
Moral
Morals Rules or habits of conduct, especially of sexual conduct, with reference to standards of right and wrong
A person of loose morals.
A decline in the public morals.
Moral
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.
Moral judgments;
A moral poem
A moral obligation
Moral
Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.
A moral action
Moral
Capable of right and wrong action.
A moral agent
Moral
Probable but not proved.
A moral certainty
Moral
Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.
A moral victory;
Moral support
Moral
(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
Moral
Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.
A candidate with strong morals
Moral
(obsolete) A morality play.
Moral
A moral certainty.
Moral
An exact counterpart.
Moral
(intransitive) To moralize.
Moral
Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.
Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue.
Mankind is broken loose from moral bands.
She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.
Moral
Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.
The wiser and more moral part of mankind.
Moral
Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.
A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense.
Moral
Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.
Moral
Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; - opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.
Moral
Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.
Moral
The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; - usually in the plural.
Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them.
Moral
The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.
Thus may we gather honey from the weed,And make a moral of the devil himself.
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
Moral
A morality play. See Morality, 5.
Moral
To moralize.
Moral
The significance of a story or event;
The moral of the story is to love thy neighbor
Moral
Relating to principles of right and wrong; i.e. to morals or ethics;
Moral philosophy
Moral
Concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles;
Moral sense
A moral scrutiny
A moral lesson
A moral quandary
Moral convictions
A moral life
Moral
Adhering to ethical and moral principles;
It seems ethical and right
Followed the only honorable course of action
Had the moral courage to stand alone
Moral
Arising from the sense of right and wrong;
A moral obligation
Moral
Psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect;
A moral victory
Moral support
Moral
Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction rather than actual evidence;
A moral certainty
