Abstract

In this chapter, the author uses the term ′ethics′ in a slightly wider sense, in a sense which includes an essential part of what is generally called ‘aesthetics’. The author says ′Ethics is the enquiry into what is valuable, or, into what is really important’, or ‘Ethics is the enquiry into the meaning of life, or into what makes life worth living, or into the right way of living’. If one looks at all these phrases, a rough idea is obtained as to what it is that ethics is concerned with. Ethics, so far as it springs from the desire to say something about the ultimate meaning of life, the absolute good, the absolute valuable can be no science. But it is a document of a tendency in the human mind which the author personally cannot help respecting deeply.