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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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Brown makes clear that the group is not trying to teach all of journalistic ethics in a day-long seminar.
This distinction mirrors a major fault line in ethics between what are known as consequentialist and deontological theories.
The ethics and interests of film producers and film archivists are sometimes in opposition.
The logical positivists who dealt with ethics put forward a view called emotivism.
An interesting choice of venue has been announced for the first European symposium devoted to ethics in gastroenterology and digestive endoscopy.
I wondered about the ethics of dissecting a donated body for general interest rather than specialist research.

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