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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

... proclamations poured forth by the Communist authorities. They comprised not only decrees, but sensational stories of victories over the Versailles troops, denunciations of the Versailles government, and even elaborate legal arguments, including a not intemperate discussion of the ethical question whether citizens who were not adherents of the Commune should be entitled to the right of suffrage. The conclusion was that they should not. The lack of humor on the part of the authorities was shown by ...

— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb

... not in virtue of anything he wrote which can be properly called Deism. Shaftesbury in his ethical and Bolingbroke in his political writings may perhaps be termed classical writers, but neither of them ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... self-restraint. Of these sentiments, all easily provoked, but not always easy to understand, the last had the greatest moral efficiency—because Mr Verloc was good. His mother and his sister had established that ethical fact on an unshakable foundation. They had established, erected, consecrated it behind Mr Verloc's back, for reasons that had nothing to do with abstract morality. And Mr Verloc was not aware of it. It is but bare justice to him to say that he had no notion of appearing ...

— The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale • Joseph Conrad

... doubt, that through him suicide has become the normal way out of our troubles when these are beyond remedy. I will not express any opinion as to the ethical significance of this admitted result of his teaching, which many of us still find it so hard to reconcile ...

— The Martian • George Du Maurier

... of Douglass extracts are given from letters of distinguished contemporaries who knew the orator. Colonel T.W. Higginson writes thus: "I have hardly heard his equal, in grasp upon an audience, in dramatic presentation, in striking at the pith of an ethical question, and in single [signal] illustrations and examples." Another writes, in reference to the impromptu speech delivered at the meeting at Rochester on the death of Lincoln: "I have heard Webster and Clay in their best moments, Channing and Beecher ...

— Frederick Douglass - A Biography • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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