ethics
- noun
- /ˈɛθɪks/
- The study of ethics helps us understand the principles of right and wrong.
- a code of ethics
- business ethics
- legal ethics
What is someone's code of ethics, their code for living?
- What is someone's code of ethics, their code for living?
- He's he's the Regis Professor of ethics at Oxford University.
- I, I think I studied ethics, which is not employable.
- He didn't care about ethics, he just wanted to win.
- The first of these parts, ethics, regulates the mind.
- Are you willing to sacrifice your ethics, your morals?
- And I have got some good values and good ethics, you know.
- And I asked whether there is secular ethics without religion.
- What is the role of ethics and values?
- We have a lesson on ethics and ethical fading.
- You are trading a lot of your own ethics really for that job.
- I think, yeah, ethics is learnable, very likely.
- What if Plato thought ethics was like math?
- And then from that you can derive and ethics about how to live life.
Examples
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We have to ensure that there's ethics and training of these folks.
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What is the role of ethics and values?
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And this gets into ethics and other things.
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The reason we're growing is because the code of ethics is we push.
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And I have got some good values and good ethics, you know.
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But I do have ethics.
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So let's think about the ethics of this experiment.
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And I asked whether there is secular ethics without religion.
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What is someone's code of ethics, their code for living?
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The case should be remitted to our ethics committee.
Synonyms
Ideas about right and wrong that tell people how to act
Ideas about what is important and how to behave
The study of right and wrong and how people should behave
A set of rules that tell people in a job or group how to behave
Ideas about what is right and wrong that guide how people behave
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A group of people who review questions about right and wrong in hospitals or research
How Moral
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word ethics comes from the Greek word ethos, which means 'character' or 'custom'. Think of it as the habits or character that help people know right from wrong, so ethics are the ideas or rules that guide people's behavior.