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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ethics \Eth"ics\, 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. The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught. --I. Taylor. From WordNet r 1.6 [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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: ethics {computer ethics}
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