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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.
I wondered about the ethics of dissecting a donated body for general interest rather than specialist research.
And Labor, in truth, is responsible for the diabolical state of ethics in Australia's radio and commercial television media.
The logical positivists who dealt with ethics put forward a view called emotivism.
Brown makes clear that the group is not trying to teach all of journalistic ethics in a day-long seminar.
An interesting choice of venue has been announced for the first European symposium devoted to ethics in gastroenterology and digestive endoscopy.

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