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Ethical

adjective

Of or relating to the philosophical study of ethics. "Ethical theories"

Conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior. "Ethical medical practice" , "An ethical problem" , "Had no ethical objection to drinking" , "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants"

Adhering to ethical and moral principles. Synonyms: honorable, honourable. "Followed the only honorable course of action"

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"Ethical" Quotes from Famous Books

... beautiful visitor and her sad and dreadful circumstances had taken upon me, brought me a new concern in the matter of self-importance. I came to think that I must reconstruct my self-values, and begin a fresh understanding of ethical beliefs. Do what I would, my mind would keep turning on the uncanny subjects brought before it. I began to apply them one by one to my own late experience, and unconsciously to try to fit them in turn to the ...

— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker

... roused the sense of humor of some of our citizens, just as the injustice and dishonesty which the system embodied roused the moral sense of others; and the Reform of the Civil Service—a dream at first, and then a passionate cause which the ethical would not let sleep—came into being. But to the politicians of the old type, the men of "inflooence" and "pull," the project seemed silly. They ridiculed it, and they expected to make it ridiculous in the eyes of the American ...

— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer

... view, "the ethical content of Paul is quite as important for us as the system of Schopenhauer or Nietzsche. The organization of the New England town meeting is no more weighty for the American boy than the organization of the early Christian Church. John Adams and John Hancock ...

— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee

... Of ethical philosophy, he, like most of the sages of antiquity, was most interested in that branch which deals with political obligations. As to natural science, his views are very crude and antiquated, as we see from ...

— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch

... of myth in primitive life, Wissler[17] says: "It serves as a body of information, as stylistic pattern, as inspiration, as ethical precepts, and finally as art. It furnishes the ever ready allusions to embellish the oration as well as to enliven the conversation of the fireside. Mythology, in the sense in which we have used the term, is the carrier and preserver ...

— The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi • Hattie Greene Lockett

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