ABSTRACT

Some of the cultures and their mentality may not develop the ethical mentality up to the level of the integrated ethicophilosophical systems. Other more integrated cultures develop it. In the case of the GraecoRoman and the Western society, such systems are present. In some form an ethical evaluation of "the right and wrong" is present in any culture and in any organized social group. In this sense the ethical mentality is a universal and permanent component of any culture mentality. For a sociologist and social psychologist, these ethicophilosophical systems have a specific interest. They are possibly the best manifestation of the ethical ideals of a given culture, the sublime peaks of its ethical mentality. The Ideational system of ethics must be and usually is absolute. The nature of the sensate mentality determines the opposite characteristics of the sensate ethical system.