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n. (context ethics English) A particular set of consistent ethical principles.
Usage examples of "ethical system".
Reality, understood through the study of history and the observation of man, is also the tool by which we construct a valid ethical system.
Almost every ethical system--and there are a great many of them, because even people who supposedly belong to the same school don't agree a good share of the time and have to be considered separately--can be looked at as a description and as a prescription.
Thus a new religio-ethical system was founded which, exactly like Adler's, was obliged to give new interpretations, to distort or set aside the actual results of analysis.
For one thing, I perceive that you possess an innate, genetically determined psionic resistance that precludes any kind of brute-force mental control, even if I were capable of it and my ethical system permitted it.
The Confucian ethical system that pervaded China long ago also preached about obligations the mighty owed to those they ruled.
Beyond the many Gods, of course, the Phansuris believed in a single, unified ethical system which ruled the universe, but this was of interest mostly to ethicists and philosophers.
They know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad-and their ethical system is highly developed, more highly developed than ours, I'm bound to think.