'Ethics' definitions:
Definition of 'ethics'
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Definition of 'Ethics'
From: GCIDE
- Ethics \Eth"ics\ ([e^]th"[i^]ks), n. [Cf. F. ['e]thique. See Ethic.] The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics. [1913 Webster]
- The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ethics'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aesthetics,
- allegiance,
- assigned task,
- axiology,
- bounden duty,
- burden,
- business,
- call of duty,
- casuistry,
- charge,
- commitment,
- cosmology,
- dedication,
- deference,
- devoir,
- devotion,
- duties and responsibilities,
- duty,
- epistemology,
- fealty,
- first philosophy,
- gnosiology,
- homage,
- imperative,
- line of duty,
- logic,
- loyalty,
- mental philosophy,
- metaphysics,
- mission,
- moral philosophy,
- must,
- obligation,
- ontology,
- onus,
- ought,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophy,
- place,
- respect,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- self-imposed duty,
- sophistry,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- value theory