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Ethics is how one should act.

Mises defined economics as the study of human action.

Is the difference just syllogistic or more than that?

 

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Mises didn't define economics as the study of human action. The study of human action from an a priori standpoint is called Praxeology. He defined economics the same as most people do, if I remember rightly; that being the social science which studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services.

 

Mises figured that a theory of ethics could be figured out using praxeology, but that it wasn't itself ethics. Hans Hermann Hoppe came up with Argumentation Ethics, based on Mises' work.

 

Ethics is a term that actually means a few different things depending on the context, which distinguishes it from morality. If you mean ethics as morality specifically and we take a UPB approach, then that is the study of how we determine objectively what a person ought do on principle, and not simply to achieve some end. That is it's epistemic concern, and the things themselves are conscious volitional human behaviors (incl. intention).

 

Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, etc. are all studies on human action. Human action is a vast domain ripe for the development of many general theories and sciences.

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I never knew that, thank you.

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