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Ethics   /ˈɛθɪks/   Listen
noun
ethic  n.  
1.
The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; as, the Puritan ethic.
Synonyms: moral principle, value-system, value orientation.
2.
A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.
Synonyms: ethical code.


Ethics  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; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics. "The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught."





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"Ethics" Quotes from Famous Books



... the remedies popularly proposed? In that important branch of polity known as Political Ethics, or, as he termed them, Hermeneutics, which your Professor Lieber sixty years ago endeavored to treat of, what advance has since his time been effected?—Nay! what advance has been effected since the time, over two thousand years, of his great predecessor, Aristotle? I confidently submit ...
— 'Tis Sixty Years Since • Charles Francis Adams
... herself to a whirlwind of profanity. She spat words at the crowd, and oaths fell like toads from her lips. We below heard the crowd and the lady; but we saw only the principals of the combat until ... until the lady, disregarding the ethics of the game, flew in with screwed face, caught the coming arm of the big man, and ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke
... worse for Shaw and so much the better for Chesterton. If Chesterton is a dangerous Romantic who likes Fairyland, at least Shaw is a dangerous eugenist who wants a super-man, and I am not sure that the fairies of Chesterton are not more useful than the ethics of Shaw; there is no doubt that they are less grown up. If Shaw is a philosopher, he is not one of this Universe; he is of another that shall be entirely sub-Shavian. If Chesterton is a philosopher, it is because he can see this universe better upside ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke
... discovered the unity of ethics, of righteousness, of right and wrong, one right, one wrong. A million applications, but one goal towards which all those who hunger and thirst after ...
— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage
... humour. On the whole, the impression left upon the reader's mind is that Shelley and Harriet were very happy together at this period, and that Harriet was a charming and sweet-tempered girl, somewhat too much given to the study of trite ethics, and slightly deficient in sensibility, but otherwise a fit and soothing companion ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Addington Symonds


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