Full Idea
Whereas the moral will understands the good to be something which it can recognise or determine by itself, the ethical will acknowledges the good to be something actual which it encounters in the world about it.
Gist of Idea
The moral will is self-determining, but the ethical will is met in society
Source
Stephen Houlgate (An Introduction to Hegel [1991], 08 'Freedom')
Book Reference
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.195
A Reaction
I think these two terms have become blurred - or at least I have thoroughly lost track of them. I'm not sure whether it is good to have distinct terms for (Kantian) personal choice and for social expectations. Ethics is what Nietzsche attacks.
Related Idea
Idea 21790 Moral individuals become ethical when they see the social aspect of a matter [Hegel, by Houlgate]