Definition of Ethics

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Ethics

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.

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Ethics Quotations

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Albert Schweitzer

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer

Ethics Translations

ethics in Dutch is ethiek, zedenkunde, zedenleer
ethics in German is Ethik, Sittenlehre
ethics in Italian is etica, etica
ethics in Norwegian is etikk
ethics in Swedish is etik

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