ethics : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ethics	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ethics
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ethics n motivation based on ideas of right and wrong [syn: {ethical motive}, ethics, morals, morality] the philosophical study of moral values and rules Synonym(s): ethics, moral philosophy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ethics \Eth"ics\, n. [Cf. F. [82]thique. See {Ethic}.] 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. The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught. --I. Taylor.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ethics {computer ethics}