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• ethics — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ personal ▪ She resigned over an issue of personal ethics. ▪ social ▪ He teaches a class on social ethics. ▪ Christian, Je …   Collocations dictionary

• Ethics — • Many writers regard ethics as any scientific treatment of the moral order and divide it into theological, or Christian, ethics (moral theology) and philosophical ethics (moral philosophy) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Ethics …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Ethics in the Bible — Ethics is the branch of philosophy which examines the question of what actions are morally right or wrong and why. The Bible contains numerous prescriptions or laws and many narrative accounts of ethical relevance.Ethics in the Hebrew… …   Wikipedia

• ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… …   Universalium

• Ethics — For other uses, see Ethics (disambiguation). Philosophy …   Wikipedia

• ethics —    by John Marks   Throughout his work, Deleuze draws a clear distinction between ethics and morality. Morality is a set of constraining rules that judge actions and intentions in relation to transcendent values of good and evil. Morality is a… …   The Deleuze dictionary

• ethics —    by John Marks   Throughout his work, Deleuze draws a clear distinction between ethics and morality. Morality is a set of constraining rules that judge actions and intentions in relation to transcendent values of good and evil. Morality is a… …   The Deleuze dictionary

• ETHICS — IN THE BIBLE There is no abstract, comprehensive concept in the Bible which parallels the modern concept of ethics. The term musar designates ethics in later Hebrew, but in the Bible it indicates merely the educational function fulfilled by the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• ethics, virtue —    Virtue ethics is the approach to ethics that sees the fundamental bearers of moral properties as being agents rather than actions or states of affairs. The supporters of this approach tend to see it as a return to a medieval ethics harking… …   Christian Philosophy

• question — ▪ I. question ques‧tion 1 [ˈkwestʆn] noun [countable] 1. a sentence or phrase that asks for information: • They asked me a lot of questions about my work experience. • Don t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. 2. a subject or pr …   Financial and business terms

• Ethics of cloning — In bioethics, the ethics of cloning refers to a variety of ethical positions regarding the practice and possibilities of cloning, especially human cloning. While many of these views are religious in origin, the questions raised by cloning are… …   Wikipedia