continue to write this introduction while keeping all citations and find the sources of ideas cited with a reference list in Havard style at the end: The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle 
Aristotle’s eudaemonism, with its emphasis on a life of moderation with every man fulfilling the function for which he is fitted by nature, and thereby ensuring happiness, is a practical and down-to-earth system which still has much modern relevance. The hedonistic, or pleasure seeking, ethics of Epicurus was by no means the crass sensualist suggested by the oft-quoted ‘Eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow we die"; it centered in a refined enjoyment of congenial friends, simplicity of living, and freedom from tension in a cultured and unstrenuous life. Stoicism, on the other hand, with its appeal to courage in the face of life’s vicissitudes and the pursuit of virtue solely for virtue’s sake, was both a more serious and a more religiously grounded ethic. Its doctrine of an all-pervasive World-Reason, or Logos, and of a natural law of morality fundamental to all existence and embracing in its scope all men, had a note of universalism which made Stoicism particularly open to amalgamation with Christian thought.
Other Moral Philosophies 
These, of course, are not the only classical systems of moral philosophy. There is the formal, duty ethics of Kant with its categorical imperative, or unconditional demand, to treat all persons as ends, never as means, and to act only in such a way that one’s conduct could be universalized. There is also the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, centered in the "greatest happiness of the greatest number" and the measurement of all courses of action by their usefulness toward this end. There is also the more recent, but in its elements very old, "social adjustment" philosophy of John Dewey which measures right conduct by the ability to take one’s place as a good citizen in an ordered, democratic society. 
It is apparent that there are good elements in all of these systems. But are they Christian? 
3.4 The Role of the Bible in Christian Ethics  
The Bible is certainly indispensable to our knowledge of Christian truth and moral obligation. Without it, it is very possible that there would be no churches today, no Christendom, no knowledge of Christ. It is, of course, conceivable that God would have found a way to propagate the faith by word of mouth without a Book through all the centuries, and the fact that Roman Catholicism could exist so long without access to the Bible by the laity makes it impossible to say categorically that the Bible is the sine qua non of Christianity. Yet few would dispute the fact that 
Without the Bible we should be infinitely poorer in our Christian experience and moral insight. 
The Bible as we hold it today is the common possession of all Christians and it is through it that we are able to forge a common front and deduce a common ground on issues of doctrine and direction. It therefore plays a major role in the determination of the direction of the Christian world at a given time. Through the ages, the spiritual progress or otherwise achieved by the church has been directly tied to the level of insights garnered from the Bible
Christian Ethics and Jesus Christ 
The keynote in the life and teaching of Jesus with regard to man’s moral duty is found in "obedient love." This means that with faith in God as the energizing center of one’s being, one is required to seek to do the will of God by loving God supremely and one’s neighbor as one’s self. 
What then is Christian ethics? It is the systematic study of the way of life set forth by Jesus Christ, applied to the daily demands and decisions of our personal and social existence. 
Christian ethics centers in the ethical insights of Jesus. Jesus had a past, and from his life and influence came the Church of which the beginnings are recorded for us in the New Testament   .