Ethics Definition

ethiks
noun
The study of standards of conduct and moral judgment; moral philosophy.
Webster's New World
A treatise on this study.
Webster's New World
The system or code of morals of a particular person, religion, group, profession, etc.
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Origin of Ethics

  • From Old French ethique, from Late Latin ethica, from Ancient Greek ἠθική (ēthike), from ἠθικός (ēthikos, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (ēthos, “character, moral nature”).

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Ethics Sentence Examples

  • Ethics is in much the same position.

  • Ethics have gone out the door and greed is in.

  • The metaphysics of Aristotle, the ethics of Spinoza, the philosophical works of Cicero, and many kindred works, were also frequent subjects of study.

  • His great work was the Theologia moralis et dogmatica, a compendium in catechetical form of Roman Catholic doctrine and ethics which has been much used as a students' text-book.

  • Really, he urged, there could be only one substance - Descartes himself had dropped a passing hint to that effect - and the bold deductive reasoning of Spinoza's Ethics, in process if not in result, betrays its kinship to the ontological argument, with its affirmation of what must be.

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