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   Eth·ics

   /ˈeTHiks/

   

   plural

   • 1. moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity: "medical ethics also enter into the question"
   • ▪ the moral correctness of specified conduct: "many scientists question the ethics of cruel experiments"
   • 2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles: "neither metaphysics nor ethics is the home of religion"

   Derivatives

   • 1. ethicist noun

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishETHIC | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   ETHIC definition: 1. a system of accepted beliefs that control behaviour, especially such a system based on morals…. Learn more.

3. www.scu.edu › ethics › ethics-resourcesWhat is Ethics? - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

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   Ethics is two things. First, ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that impose the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder ...

4. www.britannica.com › question › What-is-ethicsWhat is ethics? | Britannica

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   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.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › EthicsEthics - Wikipedia

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   Ethics or moral philosophy is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. It investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. It is usually divided into three major fields: normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics .

6. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryETHIC | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   ETHIC meaning: 1. a system of accepted beliefs that control behaviour, especially such a system based on morals…. Learn more.

7. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishETHICS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   ethics | American Dictionary. noun [ U ] us / ˈeθ·ɪks / Add to word list. the study of what is morally right and wrong, or a set of beliefs about what is morally right and wrong: They’re completely lacking in ethics. (Definition of ethics from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

8. www.britannica.com › summary › ethics-philosophyUnderstanding ethics and types | Britannica

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   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.