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ethics
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Word definitions for ethics in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ethics \Eth"ics\ ([e^]th"[i^]ks), 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 ...
Usage examples of ethics.
Her new morality-the ethics of rational self-interest-challenges the altruist-collectivist fashions of our day.
Most philosophers took the existence of ethics for granted, as the given, as a historical fact, and were not concerned with discovering its metaphysical cause or objective validation.
Many of them attempted to break the traditional monopoly of mysticism in the field of ethics and, allegedly, to define a rational, scientific, nonreligious morality.
Man has to be man by choice-and it is the task of ethics to teach him how to live like man.
Objectivist ethics is that just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others-and, therefore, that man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself.
It is true we violated our own code of ethics by making you run from us and by examining you.
Every juridical system is in some way a crystallization of a specific set of values, because ethics is part of the materiality of every juridical foundation, but Empire-and in particular the Roman tradition of imperial right-is peculiar in that it pushes the coincidence and universality of the ethical and the juridical to the extreme: in Empire there is peace, in Empire there is the guarantee of justice for all peoples.
In Empire, ethics, morality, and justice are cast into new dimensions.
The new democracy had to destroy the transcendental idea of the nation with all its racial divisions and create its own people, defined not by old heritages but by a new ethics of the construction and expansion of the community.
And yet, in this final part of the Ethics, this utopia has only an abstract and indefinite relation to reality.
New ethics laws, a resurgent Congress and a more inquiring media altered the prerogatives and daily lives of presidents.
And quite naturally prosecutors and ethics investigators were more and more determined.
They handed him a copy of the Ethics in Government Act, which the previous year Congress had passed and President Carter had signed into law.
A special prosecutor in this case was outrageous, he agreed, but his hands were tied by the ethics law.
But Civiletti had to initiate an investigation into the allegations under the Ethics in Government Act, and the FBI agents were sent to interview Jordan.