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eth·ics (et̸h′iks)

noun

  1. the study of standards of conduct and moral judgment; moral philosophy
  2. a treatise on this study
  3. the system or code of morals of a particular person, religion, group, profession, etc.

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ethics

n.

rules of conduct, morality, mores, morals, moral code, decency, integrity, moral conduct, social values, moral practice, principles, values, standards, code of right and wrong, natural law, honesty, goodness, honor, social laws, categorical imperative, the Golden Rule, bushido (Japanese).


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It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drewa system of ethics, compounded of misanthropyand voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.

-1st Baron

If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics† But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness† Man, then, can not be happy through science buttoday he canmuch less be happy without it.

-Poincare¤  , (Jules) Henri

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