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In modernity older forms of ethics, in particular Aristotelian forms of virtue ethics or religious forms of divine command ethics were set aside for the more "rational" models of utilitarianism or the categorical imperative.
Act as you would want all other people to act towards all other people. Act according to the maxim that you would wish all other rational people to follow, as if it were a universal law.
Although it would not be fully articulated until the early 20th century, there are hints in the works of people like David Hume that any moral requirement is not based in anything material or "real" but is simply the expression of a person's or a culture's personal feelings. Thus, ethics is nothing more than the articulation of emotion.