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In the academic world, the terminology of character, akhlak, morals and ethics are often equated.
However, if studied more deeply, will be differentiated. In this paper will be studied comprehensively both in
perspective of the origin/derivation of the words, theory, related science and its implementation in education.
Among some differentiate arguments such as Althof, Berkowitz and Victor Battistich differentiate these the
fourth terminologies in terms of theory and implementation. Both of these figures state if moral and ethical
theory is derived from philosophical theory. And on its implementation, moral education tends to have a
narrower scope, ie only on cognitive development while character education has wider and comprehensive
scope. While Yoke Suryadarma and Ahmad Hifdzil Haq mention the difference of these the fourth terminologies
in the barometer and its implementation. The argument of these two figures refers to the opinion of Imam Al-
Ghazali, who states that morality is not merely acts, or just the ability to do, not just knowledge also. However,
morality is an effort to integrate akhlak with the situation of the soul who are ready to bring up good and bad
deeds, not just for a moment but forever. This article exerts a descriptive analysis approach, which is based on
analyzing all the fourth related terminology arguments in perspective of the origin/derivation of the word,
theory, related science and its implementation.