Ethics

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ethics \Eth"ics\ ([e^]th"[i^]ks), n. [Cf. F. ['e]thique. See
     {Ethic}.]
     The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn
     from this science; a particular system of principles and
     rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of
     practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as,


     political or social ethics; medical ethics.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The completeness and consistency of its morality is the
           peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has
           taught.                                  --I. Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ethics
       n 1: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong [syn: {ethical
            motive}, {morals}, {morality}]
       2: the philosophical study of moral values and rules [syn: {moral
          philosophy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "ethics":
     aesthetics, allegiance, assigned task, axiology, bounden duty,
     burden, business, call of duty, casuistry, charge, commitment,
     cosmology, dedication, deference, devoir, devotion,
     duties and responsibilities, duty, epistemology, fealty,
     first philosophy, gnosiology, homage, imperative, line of duty,
     logic, loyalty, mental philosophy, metaphysics, mission,
     moral philosophy, must, obligation, ontology, onus, ought,
     phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine,
     philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry,
     philosophical speculation, philosophy, place, respect,
     school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being,
     self-imposed duty, sophistry, theory of beauty,
     theory of knowledge, value theory
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ethics
       
          {computer ethics}