Definition:
ethics
- ethicsthe discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation
- ethicsset of moral principles a theory or system of moral values the present-day materialistic ethic an old-fashioned work ethic often used in plural but singular or plural in construction an elaborate ethics Christian ethics
- ethicsguiding philosophy
- ethicsconsciousness of moral importance forge a conservation ethic
- ethicsset of moral issues or aspects (as rightness) debated the ethics of human cloning
- ethicsETHIC, a science of morals