Moreover there are many attempts to codify morality: religions. We would not describe religions as systems of ethics, even though they involve thinking about mo

Moreover there are many attempts to codify morality: religions. We would not describe religions as systems of ethics, even though they involve thinking about morality just as much as feeling. For me, morals are axioms. Ethics are the theorems built on top of those axioms. For example, moral: do no harm, the Hippocratic oath. Ethics: a surgeon should wash his hands before he operates. If you’re a soldier then “do no harm” isn’t going to work as an axiom so you need something else. Every system of ethics relies on a basis of axiomatic morality.