Quotes About Ethics

That's right honey...It's much easier to follow the bitch than it is to follow the saint.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

Self-righteousness is the most shameless slut of all.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

Better to endure pain in an honorable manner than to seek joy in a shameful one.

The problem nowadays is that, by and large, we do a pretty bad job of picking role models. We glorify actors, singers, athletes, and generic "celebrities," only to be disappointed when—predictably—it turns out that their excellence at reciting, singing, playing basketball, or racking up Facebook likes and Twitter followers has pretty much nothing to do with their moral fiber.

Confucius was once asked if there is "one teaching that can serve as a guide for one's entire life." He said that all you really need to know is the word reciprocity: "Do not impose upon others what you yourself do not desire.

realize that by "philosophers" Epictetus doesn't mean professional academics (trust me, you don't want to make a habit of socializing mostly with them), but rather people who are interested in following virtue and cultivating their character.

all types of virtue are really just different aspects of wisdom.

Ética» deriva del griego êthos, una palabra relacionada con nuestra idea de carácter; «moralidad» procede del latín moralis, que tenía que ver con hábitos y costumbres.

The discipline of action, then, is concerned with learning how to properly act in the world, both toward ourselves and toward others.

La disciplina del deseo (que también recibe el nombre de aceptación estoica) nos dice qué es y qué no es adecuado desear.

Mientras que la ética moderna se ocupa principalmente de si las acciones son correctas o no, los filósofos premodernos concebían la ética como una investigación mucho más amplia sobre cómo vivir una vida feliz, cuya consecución consideraban la empresa más importante del ser humano.

The ancient Epicureans observed that, since we are all made of particles and we observe no sentience after death, fear-based religion is unnecessary and people should focus on living well. After we die, the particles in our bodies return to nature and are recycled into other bodies. There are important ethical repercussions once we accept that we get only one life.

Nothing can be traded if the price is compromising of your character.

The fact that our qualities are relational has ethical implications. Since there is no "me" that is completely independent of my relationships, I live well to the extent that I do a good job at my relationships.

Massimo Pigliucci

una vida humana digna se tiene que centrar en el cultivo del carácter personal y en la preocupación por las demás personas (e incluso por la propia naturaleza), y que se disfruta más si se adopta un camino adecuado —pero no fanático— para distanciarse de los bienes puramente mundanos.

Better to endure pain in an honorable manner than to seek joy in a shameful one. There is a way to understand

Es mejor sufrir el dolor de una manera honorable que buscar la alegría de una forma vergonzosa.

Pero las habrían confinado a la categoría de «indiferentes preferidos»: cosas que puedes tener y cultivar, mientras no afecten a tus virtudes y tu integridad moral.

For Aristotle, then, the idea of the flourishing life cannot be disentangled from that of the balanced one, and the person who pursues moral virtue at the expense of all else—who views moral considerations as always overriding of all others—is by definition one whose life is unbalanced.