Ethics vs Ethicality - What's the difference?
ethics | ethicality |
(philosophy) The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
Morality.
The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
The state, quality, or manner of being ethical.
* 1981 , Jack Jones, "Social Darwinism Reconsidered," Political Psychology , vp. 3, no. 1/2, p. 247:
* 1995', Linda J. Skinner ''et al.'', "Academic Sexual Intimacy Violations: '''Ethicality and Occurrence Reports from Undergraduates," ''The Journal of Sex Research , vol. 32, no. 2, p. 133:
As nouns the difference between ethics and ethicality
is that ethics is the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct while ethicality is the state, quality, or manner of being ethical.ethics
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* Although the terms ethics'' and ''morality'' may sometimes be used interchangeably, philosophical ethicists often distinguish them, using ''ethics'' to refer to theories and conceptual studies relating to good and evil and right and wrong, and using ''morality'' and its related terms to refer to actual, real-world beliefs and practices concerning proper conduct. In this vein, the American philosopher , ed., ''The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard , Library of Living Philosophers, ISBN 0875483496, "Autobiography", p. 85. * In particular, in general usage ethical'' is used to describe standards of behavior between individuals, while ''moral'' or ''immoral can describe any behavior. You can call lying unethical or immoral, for example, because it involves the behavior of one person and how it affects another, but violating dietary prohibitions in a holy text would be described as immoral.Synonyms
* moral philosophyDerived terms
* applied ethics * bioethics * business ethics * comparative ethics * descriptive ethics * environmental ethics * ethicist * medical ethics * metaethics * normative ethics * situational ethicsSee also
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(ethicalities)- Some reformers and sociologists, though the majority stuck by the older internationalist ethicalities , began to adopt imperialist and group Social Darwinist views.
- As compared to the numerous studies focused on the incidence of student-faculty sexual involvement, few researchers have examined student perceptions of the ethicality of this form of sexual intimacy.