Is an ideology an ideology outside of the times you point at it? No, but the habit of being locked-in when pointed to makes it so. The idea-in-flux is not an ideology. Ethics, as I mean it, is an idea-in-flux. It is about ideas, yes, but given meaning from indwelling. As we change, so does the substance of our ethics. Without specificity one can talk of decency (the eternal river yet the water flows). My 'ethics' embraces the flux, not a building up but a tearing down. Ideology is the snag in the water that ethics can flow around. Adhering to an ideology is like fixating on the font of an alphabet (superficial) or swimming against the current (counterproductive). Ethics is the carried over feeling of what you ought to do when you are not pointing at it as a 'thing'. Ideology: idea begets sentiment; Ethics: sentiment begets idea.
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