Some believe that all moral principles return to the man's special social relations with others so that if there was no society, and any man lived completely apart from the others, and any individual lived unaware of existence of others, ethics was basically meaningless because envy and jealousy, modesty and pride, good opinion, justice and injustice, chastity, generosity and stinginess, and such like are all strictly meaningful within the society and contact of man with others. Thus man minus society will be accompanied with man minus ethic.

But while confessing that most of moral virtues and vices are concerned with social life of man, we believe this could not be generalized. Because there are a great number of moral cases which have only an individual aspect, and are true for a single man too. For instance, patience or impatience for afflictions, bravery or fear for events, endeavor or laziness in achievement to one's objective, ignorance or attention to the creator of world, thanksgiving or ingratitude for His endless favors and such affairs, which ethics scholars have discussed them in ethical books and have called them moral virtues or vices, could have an individual aspect, and are truthful for one living completely isolated from the society.

Hereof division of morality into individual morality and social morality is clarified. However, it is obvious that social morality is more important in ethics, and man's personality focuses on it, although individual morality too has a considerable part in respect to oneself.