ethics and epistemology

is ethics more valuable than epistemology? or is epistemology more valuable than ethics?

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Is ethics more valuable than epistemology? Or is epistemology more valuable than ethics?

Why should we place one above the other in terms of importance? Furthermore, what would compell our judgement?

I wonder if Epistemology would be highly useful for a discussion of Ethics by discussing whether ethical knowledge is possible (ff. A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth & Logic). Furthermore, Ethics could enhance Epistemology by laying the groundwork for the impetus of justification (ff. W.K. Clifford’s Ethics of Belief) where one may contend that it is immoral to believe a proposition on insufficient evidence.

It seems to me that Epistemology would be logically prior to Ethics, but I don’t see why this priority should subjugate Ethics.