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Ethics

Ethics Meaning & Definition
Ethics Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ethics?

[n] the philosophical study of moral values and rules
[n] motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ethics: ethical motive | moral philosophy | morality | morals

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ethics: 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

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

Ethics In Webster's Dictionary

\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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