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Ethically

adverb

In an ethical manner; from an ethical point of view; according to ethics. "This is ethically unacceptable"

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"Ethically" Quotes from Famous Books

... identical in point of fundamental principles. Both worshiped nature, but the Peruvians were far ahead of the Ainus in civilization, and their religion, as far as ritual and ceremony are concerned, far surpassed that of the "Hairy Men" when viewed from an aesthetic standpoint. Ethically, I am inclined to believe the religion of the Ainus is just as high as was that of ...

— Religion and Lust - or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire • James Weir

... out each act necessary to "company manners." How numerous are the mental and physical processes essential to good manners no one ever recognizes but the very bashful or the uncouth person trying to cultivate habits of unconsciousness in polite society. The habit of living ethically enables us to go through life without being tempted to steal or lie or do physical violence. No person's morals can be relied upon who is tempted constantly to do immoral acts; ethical training seeks to incapacitate ...

— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... rather both in one, to dispute and yet to agree—and holding as worst of all—to acquiesce without either resistance or sympathy. This is charmingly, indeed, profoundly conceived, and is psychologically and ethically true of all Mr. Shandies. Note, too, how the contrasts of character, which are always either balanced or remedied, increase the love ...

— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

... every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... he was attacking. We remember vividly the beautiful Erewhonians, who knew disease to be sin, but believed vice to be only disease. We remember the "straighteners" who gave moral medicine to the ethically unwell, the musical banks, the hypothetical language, the machines that threatened to master men, as in the war of 1914- 1918 and in the industrial system of to-day they have mastered men and made them their slaves. There was ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

Words linked to "Ethically" : unethically, ethical