Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
- n. Morality.
- n. The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of right conduct and character; the science which treats of the nature and grounds of moral obligation and of the rules which ought to determine conduct in accordance with this obligation; the doctrine of man's duty in respect to himself and the rights of others.
- n. The whole of the moral sciences; natural jurisprudence.
- n. A particular system of principles and rules concerning moral obligations and regard for the rights of others, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions and duties: as, social ethics; medical ethics.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- n. the philosophical study of moral values and rules
Etymologies
Examples
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Matthew, who happens to be a bit lacking in ethics, is a key executive for a major pharmaceutical company.
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The term ethics is the most ancient, as dating from Aristotle himself; ēthos, radically related to ethos, from the root ezō, “to set” and
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It is evident at once that according to these definitions ethics is something entirely other than what is usually understood thereby in the scientific world; and it involves not a little courage to undertake to justify the applying of the term ethics to this extensive field.
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"Copernican revolution in philosophy", as he termed it: the most fundamental revolution in the whole history of epistemology; and his ethics is the most important one since Aristotle's.
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If the human soul the source of free will and knowing the difference between good and evil has biological roots extending back up to 35 million years ago among our primate cousins, perhaps we should entertain the possibility that what we call ethics, morality, and free will all have their roots in natural selection.
Biological Origins of the Soul Pushed Back to 30 Million Years Ago ...
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All of those that involve what they call the ethics bill.
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I trained her myself in what she called the ethics of this business, and she had been practicing what I have preached.
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You may laugh at what you call ethics, but that is only a name for one of many kinds of collisions.
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That caused Mr. Giorno to establish what he called an ethics "screen."
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The ones we need to reach are those who have no interest in ethics regarding anything let alone hunting.
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