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What does ethics mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
  2. Morality.
  3. The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
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A number of new books have begun to question the ethics of marketing beauty products and services to adults too.
Obviously, when journalists betray their code of ethics by making up stories, or egregious misconduct, they must be punished.
On the contrary, ethics is determinately particularistic, at times veering dangerously close to narcissistic.
This distinction mirrors a major fault line in ethics between what are known as consequentialist and deontological theories.
An interesting choice of venue has been announced for the first European symposium devoted to ethics in gastroenterology and digestive endoscopy.
Traditionally, the field of normative ethics is discussed in terms of two broad categories of ethical orientation, deontology and teleology.

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