What is another word for ethical system?

Pronunciation: [ˈɛθɪkə͡l sˈɪstəm] (IPA)

An ethical system is a well-defined set of principles and values that individuals or groups use to make moral decisions. It is the foundation upon which moral codes, moral theories and ethical practices are based. Synonyms for an ethical system include ethical framework, ethical theory, moral philosophy, moral framework, moral theory and moral system. These terms are all used interchangeably to refer to the organized approach or system used by individuals or organizations to analyze and evaluate moral issues. Having a well-defined ethical system in place is essential for businesses and individuals to make the right moral decisions and uphold high ethical standards.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Ethical system

  • The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
    Daniel Dennett
  • We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
    Arthur Keith
  • But whatever the deity which satisfied Arnold's personal experience may have been, the religion which he gives us in and is neither Deism nor bare Pan-Deism, but a diluted Positivism. As an ethical system it is in theory admirable, but its positive value is in the highest degree questionable. Pascal's judgment upon the God who emerged from the philosophical investigations of Rene Descartes was that He was a God who was unnecessary. And one may with even greater truth say that the man who is able to receive and live by the religion which Arnold offers him is no longer in need of its help and stimulus. To be able to appreciate an ethical idealism a man must himself be already an ethical idealist.
    Matthew Arnold
  • And the ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity—beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge—and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men. To do the latter is to do the former; the two things are inseparable. And the method that nature has followed hitherto in the shaping of the world, whereby weakness was prevented from propagating weakness, and cowardice and feebleness were saved from the accomplishment of their desires, the method that has only one alternative, the method that must in some cases still be called in to the help of man, is death. In the new vision death is no inexplicable horror, no pointless terminal terror to the miseries of life, it is the end of all the pain of life, the end of the bitterness of failure, the merciful obliteration of weak and silly and pointless things.
    H. G. Wells

Related words: ethical framework, ethical systems, ethical decision making, human factors in ethical decision making, ethical code of conduct, ethical decision making process, ethics system

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