Meaning of ETHICS
| Pronunciation: | | 'ethiks
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- [n] the philosophical study of moral values and rules
- [n] motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
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| | Synonyms: | | ethical motive, moral philosophy, morality, morals |
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| | See Also: | | casuistry, Christ Within, conscience, endaemonism, eudemonism, hedonism, hedonism, Inner Light, Light, Light Within, moral sense, motivation, motive, need, philosophy, scruples, sense of right and wrong | |
| Products Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Ethics
Discusses how to develop a code of ethics, how friends, family, and other can influence ethics, and how ethics affect the community. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Eth"ics\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]thique. See {Ethic}.]
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. --I. Taylor.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | computer ethics |
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| Legal Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Of or relating to moral action and conduct; professionally right; conforming to professional standards. |
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| | Related Terms: | | aesthetics, allegiance, assigned task, axiology, bounden duty, burden, business, call of duty, casuistry, charge, commitment, cosmology, dedication, deference, devoir, devotion, duties and responsibilities, duty, epistemology, fealty, first philosophy, gnosiology, homage, imperative, line of duty, logic, loyalty, mental philosophy, metaphysics, mission, moral philosophy, must, obligation, ontology, onus, ought, phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine, philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry, philosophical speculation, philosophy, place, respect, school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being, self-imposed duty, sophistry, theory of beauty, theory of knowledge, value theory |
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