Ethical

  • 21ethical — [ˈeθɪk(ə)l] adj 1) involving the principles that people use for deciding what is right and what is wrong ethical issues/standards/objections[/ex] 2) morally right Ant: unethical Is it really ethical to keep animals in zoos?[/ex] ethically… …

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  • 22ethical — ethically, adv. ethicalness, ethicality, n. /eth i keuhl/, adj. 1. pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct. 2. being in accordance with the rules or standards for right conduct… …

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  • 23ethical — adj. Ethical is used with these nouns: ↑aspect, ↑code, ↑concern, ↑consideration, ↑controversy, ↑decision, ↑dilemma, ↑dimension, ↑duty, ↑ground, ↑guidance, ↑ …

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  • 24ethical — [17] The underlying meaning of Greek ēthos was ‘personal disposition’. It came ultimately from prehistoric Indo European *swedh , a compound formed from the reflexive pronoun *swe ‘oneself’ and dhē ‘put’ (from which English gets do). Gradually… …

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  • 25ethical — [17] The underlying meaning of Greek ēthos was ‘personal disposition’. It came ultimately from prehistoric Indo European *swedh , a compound formed from the reflexive pronoun *swe ‘oneself’ and dhē ‘put’ (from which English gets do). Gradually… …

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  • 26ETHICAL LITERATURE — (Heb. סִפְרוּת הַמּוּסָר, sifrut ha musar). There is no specific ethical literature as such in the biblical and talmudic period insofar as a systematic formulation of Jewish ethics is concerned. Even the wisdom literature of the Bible, though… …

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  • 27Ethical Culture — is a nontheistic religion established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is an ethical, educational, and religious movement. Individual chapter organizations are generically referred to as Ethical Societies, though their names… …

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  • 28Ethical intuitionism — (also called moral intuitionism) is usually understood as a meta ethical theory that embraces the following theses: Moral realism, the view that there are objective facts of morality, Ethical non naturalism, the view that these evaluative facts… …

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  • 29Ethical egoism — is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their self interest. It differs from psychological egoism, in that psychological egoism is the claim that people can only act in their self interest, while ethical egoism… …

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  • 30Ethical naturalism — (also called moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism[1]) is the meta ethical view which claims that: Ethical sentences express propositions. Some such propositions are true. Those propositions are made true by objective features… …

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