/lit/ - Literature

>>19305807
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>>13844848
I'd say an ethical system is the summary of real life ethics, an afterthought. I guess there are some exceptions to this. Although: if thinking about an ethical system changes your behaviour, I suppose that you were already on the brink of changing and the ethical system is merely the trigger for change. I could imagine that it isnt even the specific ethical system that triggers the change, but reading about ethics in general, thinking about it, not in a philosophical, but in an emotional sense - the philosophy of ethics fascilitates ethical norms already in place and independent of the specific philosophy of ethics one concerns himself with.