Ethical principles work well for a diaspora people who have control over neither their material conditions nor over the institutions that shape the social relationships that govern those material conditions. Too, ethical principles can be defined within the 'ghetto walls' of the diaspora community, parochially, according to the whims of the community's ruling elite.
As soon as we move from ethical principles to historical forces shaping society we open up the question from the parochial to the universal. History engages us in the question as part of the on-going conversation in which all of humanity participates. Once we introduce God into the matter of material forces shaping history we are speaking at the deeper levels of moral philosophy where all mankind resides. Then it becomes more than ethics.
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