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The Ethical (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠mature when a person has felt the intensity of duty with all his energy, causing duty to break forth within him and to become the assurance of the eternal validity of his being.

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The Ethical (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a thing which, in order to study it, every human being is assigned to himself.

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The Ethical (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that in a person by which he becomes what he becomes while the ethical is that by which he spontaneously and immediately is what he is.

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The Ethical (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the universal, and as the universal it applies to everyone, which from another angle means that it applies at all times.

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The Ethical (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠just as boring in scholarship as in life: under the esthetic sky all is buoyant; when ethics arrives, all turns harsh, angular, infinitely boring.