This topic covers a wide range of issues, from a brief history of Ethical Culture to various important aspects of its identity. 

Some of the aspects to be addressed include Ethical Culture:

• as evolving, open, and pragmatic
• as resepcting reason, obsersvation,and the scientific method
• being non-theistic
• as a religious experience
• promoting the primacy of ethics

Four major areas of its identity - the primacy of ethics, inherent worth, ethical relationships, and ethical action - will be covered in greater detail as future topics.