Abstract

Ethics has been described as the science of morality and conduct. [...] Ethics then must deal with the inner process and the outward behaviour as to whether both is right or wrong, good or bad....a question of Ethics is to decide which is the highest category, the "content" or the "attitude", and which is primary character or conduct. But this much seems apparent that no act is moral which does not combine both. [...] That faith in a moral ideal is at the root of all morality needs hardly to be proven. [...] There seems to be as much conviction also that this good is the end or purpose of human life. [...] The business of Ethics, then, is to conduct a systematic examination of the various ideals of human life, and to seek to correlate them with the true or absolute ideal of humanity, so that at last the absolute good is discovered. The Ethics of Achievement is such an attempt.