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ethics/ethic
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, right and wrong, rules of conduct, standard, standards, the Golden Rule |
| Antonyms: | corruption, immorality |
| Main Entry: | ethics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | morality |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, standard, standards, value |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
| Main Entry: | social Darwinism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social theories derived from evolution |
| Synonyms: | Darwinism, adaptation, evolution, law of the jungle, natural law, natural selection, phylogeny, social evolution, survival of the fittest, theory of evolution |
| Main Entry: | survival of the fittest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theory of evolution |
| Synonyms: | Darwinianism, Darwinism, Neo-Darwinism, adaptation, evolution, evolutionism, law of the jungle, natural law, natural selection, organic evolution, phylogeny, punctuated equilibrium, social Darwinism, social evolution |
| Main Entry: | unwritten law |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule based on custom |
| Synonyms: | convention, natural law, protocol |
| Main Entry: | rightfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, propriety, righteousness, rightness, standard, standards, value |
| Main Entry: | rightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, propriety, righteousness, rightfulness, standard, standards, value |
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