Abstract

This chapter engages in a philosophical discussion on ethics by questioning its learnt or innate nature. Building upon Lévinas’ works, it reasons that the discussion is rather on immanence of transcendence and shows that ethics, by proceeding from aesthetics, appears as the offshoot of the self’s ontological construction. Thereby, ethics is immanent and innate but learnt through self-discovery. Ethics becomes transcendental and keeps being learnt through interactions with other selves. Forms of ethics education, even though not compulsory in this construction, can help inform the ethical self on what society values.