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ethics
/ˈɛθ.ɪks/
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What does ethics mean?
noun
- Morality.
- The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
- The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
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noun
- plural of ethic
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If there exists in the world a more perfect summary of slave ethics, I do not know where to find it.
For pleasure crowns activity, as beauty is a crown to youth, as Aristotle truly asserts in the tenth book of the Ethics.
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The Republicans had carried the country upon an issue in which ethics were more directly and visibly mingled with politics than usual.
Psychology and the outlook of modern life are stressing the growth of independent responsibility and discrimination as the true basis of ethics.
If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction society, he will see the need of these ethics.