Ethics

What is the difference between morals and ethics?

This question crops up occasionally so I thought I’d define both ethics and morals then let folks sort out the difference for themselves.

Ethics is a branch of philosophy dedicated to systematically understanding the moral value of actions. It is the attempt to understand what makes an action right or wrong and also the attempt to understand what justifies and creates our values of right and wrong.

Morality can be a code of conduct that dictates behavior as well as the definition of right and wrong. It can also be used to mean the rightness or wrongness of a specific act.

So what’s the difference and why is our art called martial ethics method and not martial moral method?