The terms ethics and morality are often used interchangeably - indeed, they usually can mean the same thing and in casual conversation there isn't a problem with switching between one and the other. Strictly speaking, though, morality is used to refer to what we would call moral standards and moral conduct while ethics is used to refer to the formal study of those standards and conduct. For this reason, the study of ethics is also often called 'moral philosophy.'
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