关键词: 伦理, 道德, 概念, 比较

Abstract: Both “ethics” & “morality” are key concepts in ethics or moral philosophy, But the two concepts are in long confusion,in which ethics and moral education become speech stammer. The two concepts are compared from three dimensions in this thesis: from Chinese language & culture; from English & culture; from Chinese culture and western culture. The conclusions are that the contemporary concept of ethics embodies properties of rationality, sciences public will and so on, and the concept of morality includes more flavour of sentiments, humanities and individual training and so on, nowadays there is significant linguistic & culture borderline between “ethics” and “morality” after exclusive , competition and amalgamation from each other. Namely, the “ethics” is higher concept than the “morality”.They cannot replace each other in academic horizon.

Key words: Ethics, Morality, Concept, Compare