It is an area of intellectual risk, of leaps in the dark, and of unending controversy. One of the most fundamental problems of any ethical system is how to ground its principles. Ethics is forced to look beyond itself for its most basic assumptions. Utilitarianism takes the greatest pleasure of the greatest number as its ultimate goal. Again, many wonder whether this could be used to justify the ditching of all fundamental principles of right and wrong.
Pantheist ethics have the clearest grounding of any ethical system.
In a sense they are the ethics that the universe and nature themselves evoke directly from us. The ethical appeal This comes about in two related ways. The first is through a direct emotional appeal, based on the objective qualities of nature and the universe. The logic of this process is simple. The Universe is divine.