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Judaeo-Christian ethics believes in a moral law that is revealed by God. It is also believed that the account of this revelation is in Scripture. Christian ethics in particular describes the moral law as a "natural law" that is revealed in the hearts of all humanity and goes on to describe the existence of this awareness of the moral law as conscience (syneidesis). The conscience is described in the Old Testament as the heart (lebh), meaning the entire inner person.

"Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart."--Psalm 119:34

"For when the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law, they are a law for themselves even though they do not have the law. They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people's hidden works

through Christ Jesus."--Romans 2:14-16

Virtue Ethics

"Happiness is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world...some identify happiness with good fortune, though others identify it with virtue....

"...excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue. ...Virtue, then, is a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean,...."--Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

Introduction to Ethical Theory, edited by Kenneth F. Rogerson (1991), pp. 171-73.

Virtue ethics is concerned with achieving happiness (eudaimonia) through the exercise of virtue.

Rights Theories of Ethics

"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of man in society is to be under no other legislative power but that established by consent in the commonwealth; nor under the dominion of any will or restraint of any law, but what that legislative...