ethic vs ethics
Definitions
noun
- the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group
- a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct
Examples
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe. Albert Schweitzer
Such a usage is ethically unacceptable, politically manipulative and decidedly unhistorical.
A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility, and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation.
Definitions
noun
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- the philosophical study of moral values and rules
Examples
Republicans, meanwhile, are mulling whether to abandon the notion of filing ethics charges against Rep.
In this article we analyze the grammar of codes of ethics as a written locutionary act, and attempt to determine their implicit illocutionary and perlocutionary values.
Another source of pride for her was being one of the first lay people to serve on the ethics committee of a London teaching hospital.
