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Ethic   Listen
noun
ethic  n.  
1.
The principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; as, the Puritan ethic.
Synonyms: moral principle, value-system, value orientation.
2.
A system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.
Synonyms: ethical code.





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"Ethic" Quotes from Famous Books



... gentlemen published works respecting this second voyage of Cook, to which we shall have occasion to refer in the notes. That of the former is entitled, "Observations made during a Voyage round the World, on Physical Geography, Natural History, and Ethic Philosophy, &c.," and was published at London in 1778, 4to.; that of the latter is, properly speaking, a full relation of the voyage, and appeared in two volumes 4to., at London, the year before. There is good reason for saying. that no account of this voyage can ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr
... and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic. ...
— The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius
... and for licence to do evil. What Religion has to face in the controversies of to-day is not the unbelief of the sty, but the unbelief of the educated conscience and of the soaring intellect; and unless it can arm itself with a loftier ethic and a grander philosophy than its opponent, it will lose its hold over the purest and the ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant


Words linked to "Ethic" :   double standard, value orientation, ethical code, value-system, system of rules, principle, system, moral principle, precept, Chartism


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