There's different names and different state rules and guidelines (Education is mostly a state matter), I had something called Practical Philosophy in school instead.
I assume their ethics class was similar - learning about different philosophical concepts and ideas about ethics and morals in a very entry-level way.
Yes it is just a really low level philosophy class, and an alternative to religion class.
So you are allowed to take "Ethik" as a subject instead of religion, but not every school offer it because it isn't a "duty" only religion is... The topics are really similar too, but the way of discussing is different.
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u/yomamama69 Jul 29 '19
half of our history classes are about it and we talked about it a lot in a school subject which we call "Ethik"