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- adjective Not
ethical ; not related toethics .
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Examples
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Welch makes a distinction between evangelizing and proselytizing, which he described as "nonethical ways of seeking the conversion of others, or arm-twisting."
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Welch makes a distinction between evangelizing and proselytizing, which he described as "nonethical ways of seeking the conversion of others, or arm-twisting."
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So if we are making a decision and there are ethical arguments to make one decision and nonethical arguments in favor of a contrary view, the ethical argument prevails.
Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994
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So if we are making a decision and there are ethical arguments to make one decision and nonethical arguments in favor of a contrary view, the ethical argument prevails.
Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994
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Religions have sometimes been divided into the ethical and the nonethical; but so far as the character of the deity is concerned no such division holds, for there never has been a supernatural Power that has not reflected the moral ideas of its time and place.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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a search for the moral minimum; it tried to draw the lowest acceptable line between ethical and nonethical, e.g., egotistical conduct, for instance, in economic or market dealings.
CASUISTRY WERNER STARK 1968
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