Ethics - Etica

DEFINITIONS OF ETHICS

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• a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.
• the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics.
• moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence.
• that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethic

• the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation
• a set of moral principles : a theory or system of moral values —often used in plural but singular or plural in construction
• the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group
• a guiding philosophy
• a consciousness of moral importance
• a set of moral issues or aspects (as rightness)