I.   Introductory provisions

Ethics is a term used to describe several different systems of Morality through various fictional frames of reference (“moralities”) applied to fictional views of the world (“realities”) concerning Form and Meaning that distinguishes between those Actions and Rituals considered good, positive and right and those considered bad, negative and wrong.

The word Ethics was first invented along with the first ethical system in the 4th Century BCE by Aristotle from the ancient Greek word nθος (ēthos) meaning “custom, habit”.

The most famous and foundational work of all ethic systems is the work by Aristotle called Nicomachean Ethics which postulates the highest good and aim of thinking is “well being” or the pursuit of “happiness”. The most significant maxims of Nicomachean Ethics are:

(i) Eudaminonia is the term used by Aristotle to describe the highest good for the Homo Sapien species being the pursuit of well-being and happiness; and

(ii) Eudaminonia is not only an ongoing process but a “way of being” in action (energeia) appropriate for the human soul (psuchē), at its most excellent (aretē) and virtuous (ethikē); and

(iii) Ethikē Aretē being the qualities of the most excellent and virtuous Homo Sapien are the art of living a beautiful and good life (kalos), who seeks perfection in their efforts (spoudaios), using reason in thought and speech (logos); and

(iv) Right actions under good teachers leads to the development of right habits, leading to good and stable character (ethos) and the possibility through free will of Eudaminonia.

In accordance with Divine Law, Natural Law and Cognitive Law, Ethics is a quality unique to Positive Law. Therefore, Bioethics is a quality unique to Positive Law and lesser forms of law.

Any action or ritual considered bad, wrong and evil or right, good and correct in accordance with Ethics and Morality is through statutes issued under Positive Law and can never be claimed as Divine Law or Natural Law.

Any law invoking Ethics that claims Divine Law or Natural Law is automatically invalid and therefore null and void from the beginning.

As no man, woman or person may claim higher Ethical Personality than the Divine Creator and as all power and authority has been granted by the Divine through Pactum De Singularis Caelum, no man, woman or person has higher Ethical Personality than the Society of One Heaven.

Excluding the sacred covenant Pactum De Singularis Caelum and these Canons, any claim, statute or pronouncement by any man, woman or person to have higher ethical authority or moral personality than the Society of One Heaven is hereby null and void from the beginning, therefore having no legal validity or existence.

Modern Ethics in the Roman system is subdivided into five branches being Classical, Meta, Normative, Descriptive and Applied:

(i) Classical Ethics is the founding branch of Ethics created by Aristotle concerning distinguishing right and wrong and the foundation of Western moral philosophy until the end of 19th Century; and

(ii) Meta Ethics is a branch of Ethics created at the beginning of the 20th Century through the work of G.E. Moore called Principia Ethica concerning the meaning and reference of moral propositions beyond “right” and “wrong” and how their truth value(s) may be determined statistically; and

(iii) Normative Ethics is a branch of Ethics created around 1930 through the work of W. D. Ross called The Right and the Good concerning the means of determining a moral course of action without the need to describe an action “right” or “wrong”; and

(iv) Descriptive Ethics, also known as Comparative Ethics is a branch of Ethics created around 1970 concerning the normalization and classification of moral value systems to which a community subscribe; and

(v) Applied Ethics is a branch of Ethics created towards the end of the 20th Century attempting to consume “classical ethics” through the work of P. Singer, R. Porter, A Cohen and R. Chadwick whereby different philosophical systems beyond classical philosophy are applied to public and private issues to resolve matters of moral judgment.

In accordance with the most sacred covenant Pactum De Singularis Caelum, the supreme model of Ethics is exemplified through the application of the eleven (11) Covenants, the twenty-two (22) Books of Canon Law and the thirty-three (33) codes of law using the six (6) Virs of respect, honesty consistency, enthusiasm, compassion and cheerfulness.

When anyone references, writes or speaks of “Ethical Perfection”, “Ethics”, or “Ethical Personality”, it shall mean these Canons and no other.