Full Idea
While the Hegelian philosophy goes on and is finished without having an Ethics, the more simple philosophy which is propounded by an existing individual for existing individuals, will more especially emphasis the ethical.
Gist of Idea
While big metaphysics is complete without ethics, personal philosophy emphasises ethics
Source
Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Lessing')
Book Reference
Kierkegaard,Søren: 'A Kierkegaard Anthology', ed/tr. Bretall,Robert [Princeton 1946], p.203
A Reaction
This is reminiscent of the Socratic revolution, which shifted philosophy from the study of nature to the study of personal virtue. However, if we look for ethical teachings in existentialism, there often seems to be a black hole in the middle.