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Also: ethical.

All relationships and the application of ethics grow out of the fundamental facts of origin. 28:6.2

Static ethics and traditional morality are just slightly superanimal. Ethics and morals become truly human when they are dynamic and progressive, alive with universe reality. 12:5.10

human ethics and the natural consciousness of relative right and wrong were born from the concepts of the appeasement of ever-displeased spirits 86:6.7

Religion has handicapped social development in many ways, but without religion there would have been no enduring morality nor ethics, no worth-while civilization. 92:3.6-8 101:0.2

Civilization is in danger when youth neglect to interest themselves in ethics, sociology, eugenics, philosophy, the fine arts, religion, and cosmology. 111:4.4

The evolutionary mind is able to discover law, morals, and ethics 196:3.26

the ethical conscience and the moral consciousness is indispensable to human progress and survival 101:3.1

man’s understanding of ethics is only relatively true 115:1.2

Secrecy, insincerity, and hypocrisy may obscure sex problems, but they do not provide solutions, nor do they advance ethics. 82:1.10

Man’s acquirement of ethical judgment, moral will, is usually coincident with the appearance of early language. 52:1.6

In the Urantia Book

Defined as

  • Ethic sensitivity is the sense of the eternal fitness of Deity relations with all beings 56:10.8
  • Ethics is the eternal social or racial mirror that faithfully reflects the otherwise unobservable progress of internal spiritual and religious developments. 102:8.4
  • To love one's neighbor as oneself is the highest ethics. 170:3.6
  • Ethical obligations are innate, divine, and universal. 54:4.4
  • the ethics of Paradise relationships are neither meaningless formalities nor the dictations of artificial castes but rather the inherent proprieties 27:4.1
  • Ethical awareness is simply the recognition by any individual of the rights inherent in the existence of any and all other individuals. 27:3.1 92:7.5
  • ethics is the necessity for recognizing that the world and the universe are filled with a multitude of differing types of beings, and all of this magnificent creation, including ourselves, was not made just for us. 28:6.18
  • group ethics is the secret of pleasant and profitable interrelationship between the various universe and superuniverse orders of intelligent personalities. 43:8.3

Learning

Jesus and ethics

  • Jesus never concerned with ethics as such. He was wholly concerned with that inward and spiritual fellowship with God the Father which so certainly and directly manifests itself as outward and loving service for man. 170:3.8-9
  • Greek philosophy, coupled with Paul’s theology, still forms the basis of European ethics. 98:7.10

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

Where it appears

Ethics is linked in 4 paragraphs of the text.

See also