ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the (inter)relationships between leisure and ethics against the background of the ontological value they have for reflection on the leisure idea. First, it investigates the question about the nature of ethics by reflecting on its basic concepts, the nature of moral reflection, the most common approaches regarding theory and the possible end(s) or purpose of the good life. Second, the chapter focuses the way leisure scholars have perceived and addressed the connection between leisure and ethics. Third, it explores their interconnectedness and construct the foundational basis of a leisure ethic. Two key concepts used for situating and clarifying the nature of ethics are 'ethics' and 'morality'. Two important European exponents of an art-of-life philosophy in the twenty-first century are the German and Dutch philosophers Schmid and Dohmen. The leisure ethic fundamentally concerns self-morality, wisdom and becoming fully human with eudaimonia as the beckoning horizon.
