Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. (Nikolai Berdyaev)

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations.

Nikolai Berdyaev

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