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- Dictionaryethic/ˈɛθɪk/
noun
- 1. a set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct: "the puritan ethic was being replaced by the hedonist ethic"
adjective
- 1. relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these: rare "the ethic question is of wider import"
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Sep 14, 2024 · Ethics, the philosophical discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. Its subject consists of fundamental issues of practical decision making, and its major concerns include the nature of ultimate value and the standards by which human actions can be morally evaluated.
The term ethics may refer to the philosophical study of the concepts of moral right and wrong and moral good and bad, to any philosophical theory of what is morally right and wrong or morally good and bad, and to any system or code of moral rules, principles, or values.
ethics, Branch of philosophy that seeks to determine the correct application of moral notions such as good and bad and right and wrong or a theory of the application or nature of such notions. Ethics is traditionally subdivided into normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics.
ETHIC meaning: 1 : rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad usually plural; 2 : an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behavior a branch of philosophy dealing with what is morally right or wrong
Sep 13, 2024 · Morality, the moral beliefs and practices of a culture, community, or religion or a code or system of moral rules, principles, or values. The conceptual foundations and rational consistency of such standards are the subject matter of the philosophical discipline of ethics, also known as moral.
ETHICAL meaning: 1 : involving questions of right and wrong behavior relating to ethics; 2 : following accepted rules of behavior morally right and good
Generally, the terms ethics and morality are used interchangeably, although a few different communities (academic, legal, or religious, for example) will occasionally make a distinction. In fact, Britannica’s article on ethics considers the terms to be the same as moral philosophy.
Sep 14, 2024 · Ethics - Socrates, Morality, Virtue: Socrates, who once observed that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” must be regarded as one of the greatest teachers of ethics.
ethnic group, a social group or category of the population that, in a larger society, is set apart and bound together by common ties of race, language, nationality, or culture. Ethnic diversity is one form of the social complexity found in most contemporary societies.
Aug 8, 2024 · Business ethics, branch of applied ethics that studies the moral dimensions of commercial activity, frequently but not exclusively with respect to corporations.
