ethicsn.

Brit.

/ˈɛθɪks/, U.S.

/ˈɛθɪks/

Forms: late Middle English etikis, late Middle English etiques, late Middle English etyks, late Middle English eytikes, late Middle English–1500s ethyques, late Middle English–1500s etikes, late Middle English–1600s ethikes, late Middle English–1600s ethiques, 1500s ethyckes, 1500s ethycks, 1500s ethykes, 1500s etykes, 1500s–1600s ethickes, 1500s–1700s ethicks, 1600s aethicks, 1600s– ethics.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French ethiques ; ethic adj.

Etymology: Originally < Middle French ethiques, ethyques title of a treatise on morals by Aristotle, branch of knowledge dealing with moral principles (both c1370; compare earlier ethique ethic n.), use as noun of plural of ethique , ethyque ethic adj., after post-classical Latin ethica Aristotle's Ethics (c1330, c1440 in British sources; compare liber ethicorum book of Ethics (from c1250 in British sources)), itself after ancient Greek τὰ ἠθικά (plural noun) treatise on morals (Aristotle). In later use also partly < ethic adj. (see -ic suffix 2).Compare Spanish †eticas , plural noun (late 13th cent. in el libro de las eticas , with reference to Aristotle's Ethics). Compare earlier ethic n. and the foreign-language nouns cited at that entry.

Moral principles, or a system of these.

a. With singular or plural agreement. Now usually with capital initial. (The title of) a study of or treatise on moral principles; spec. that of Aristotle.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun]

philosophy1340

ethica1387

moralityc1390

ethics?a1425

moral philosophyc1443

morals?1566

moral science1656

moral sciences1656

ethology1696

aretaics1865

meta-ethics1938

?a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Claud.) (1850) Dan. xi. 36 Gloss. The filosofore in j. book of Etikis clepith fleisli liyf, ether lustful liyf, beestli liyf.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 71 (MED) This is that Aristotle seith in etiques.

?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. avii The phylosopher sayth in the viii book of ethyques, that [etc.].

1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. A.vi^v Arystotle in the fyfte of his Ethikes deuideth Iustice in two speces or kyndes.

1550 R. Sherry tr. Erasmus Declam. Chyldren in Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. K.v^v Thou shuldest reade y^e offices of Cicero, or the Ethickes of Aristotle.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 41 Aristotle in his Ethickes holds,..to be wise and happie are reciprocall termes.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. iv. 112 The same is touched by Aristotle in his Ethicks .

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxix. 204 If this gentleman will go back to his Ethics.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. v. 475 Edward himself..read the ethics of Aristotle in Greek.

1858 A. Grant Ethics of Aristotle II. 141/1 Aristotle's Ethics are very little psychological in their character.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. v. 120 It is not by such disgression that a man gets up the Ethics or the Annals.

a1907 M. E. Coleridge Poems (1908) 191 But woman's woman, even when She reads her Ethics in the Greek.

1949 G. Highet Classical Trad. vi. 119 Aristotle's Ethics were also translated into French under Charles V.

2008 D. Young Distraction 236 His [sc. Spinoza's] Ethics is his most notable work.

b. With singular or †plural agreement. The branch of knowledge or study dealing with moral principles.

(a) Generally, or with reference to personal or religious responsibilities.

ΚΠ

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Ci Neither is there almost any poeticall fygment, wherein there is not some thing comprehended, taken out..of the Phisicks or Ethicks.

1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxv. 313 Nor wanted thear..that did relye On Physickes and on Ethickes, and..a God deny.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 258 He was made Professor of Eloquence and Ethicks in the Universitie of Ingolstade.

1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxxiii The Stoick [philosophy]: The most noble, most generous..amonst all the Sects, who have given us the Rules of Ethiques.

1708 Edinb. Town Council Minute 16 June in A. Bower Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1817) II. ix. 71 In the first of these classes, the students be taught logic and metaphysics; and, in the last, a compend of ethics and natural philosophy.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Ethological,..pertaining to Discourses and Treatises of Ethicks or Morality.

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xix. §11 Ethics at large may be defined, the art of directing men's actions to the production of the greatest possible quantity of happiness.

1836 R. W. Emerson Nature vi. 72 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.

1877 H. Sidgwick Suppl. Methods of Ethics i. i. 2 Ethics is sometimes considered as an investigation of the true Moral laws or rational Rules of Conduct; sometimes as an inquiry into the nature of the ultimate End of human action.

1913 Relig. Educ. June 195 I have taught ethics for fifteen years in five private schools for girls in Boston.

1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. iv. 6/7 She appears to be an intellectual powerhouse, a tireless debater of ethics and philosophy.

(b) With reference to a wider sphere that includes law and politics as well as personal conduct and religion.

ΚΠ

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. 27 Jurisprudence..is the principal and most perfect branch of ethics.

1850 G. Field Analogy of Logic ii. iv. 238 Throughout Ethics, Moral, Political, and Religious, the first and pervading principle is Unity.

1902 D. A. Gorton Ethics iv. 129 Not until the principles of ethics, political and economic, are recognized and applied to the relations of men shall peace and prosperity to all classes and conditions of men begin.

1953 Life 28 Sept. 36/3 Since Aristotle the science of politics has been accounted a branch of ethics in most countries of the West.

2001 R. Khanna in E. Bronfen & M. Kavka Feminist Consequences v. 102 The particularization of ethics into codes and laws has moved ethics from the realm of justice to that of law.

c. With plural agreement. Moral principles; maxims, precepts, or observations concerning these.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > moral principle(s)

principle?1533

ethics1651

moral1688

morale1752

standards1893

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > particular system of

ethics1651

morality1680

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 288 God's laws, standing at the top of our Ethicks.

a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 195 Out of them [sc. St. Paul's epistles] might well be compiled a Body of Ethicks, or System of Precepts de officiis.

1678 R. L'Estrange in tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits To Rdr. p. iii I have reduc'd all his scatter'd Ethiques to their proper Heads.

1690 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue ii. 34 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. The Sum of His [sc. Confutius'] Writings, seems to be a Body or Digestion of Ethicks, that is, of all Moral Vertues, either Personal, Oeconomical, Civil or Political.

1734 A. Pope Ess. Man (rev. ed.) Design sig. a^v If I could flatter my self that this Essay has any Merit, it is in..forming out of all, a temperate yet not inconsistent, and a short yet not imperfect System of Ethics.

1795 R. Anderson Life Samuel Johnson 282 His essays form a body of ethics; the observations on life and manners are acute.

1840 Church of Eng. Q. Rev. 7 15 Charges of ‘legality’, ‘preaching ethics’, &c.

1852 Househ. Words 13 Nov. 214/1 They will dance, flirt, walk, talk, and make merry with you, and spout poetry and ethics by the yard.

1912 N. Douglas Fountains in Sand xii. 138 To justify some base plan of action by re-stating ethics in terms of hunger.

1994 W. N. Herbert Forked Tongue 93 Women beware men with ethics in their mouths.

2. With singular or plural agreement. In narrower sense, specified or understood from the context.

a. The moral principles or system associated with a particular leader, thinker, school of thought, or area of enquiry, or with a particular historical period.teleological ethics: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > moral principle(s) > of a specific leader or school of thought

ethics1649

1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. iv. 203 What foul errors are in the Ethicks of their most rigid Moralists?

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 31 If the Atheists would but live up to the Ethics of Epicurus himself.

1764 W. Dodd Visitor II. lvii. 89 Humility is the virtue..which singly may well be esteemed superior to all the ethics of antiquity.

1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 34 This philosophical instructor [sc. Rousseau] in the ethicks of vanity.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1855) vii. 232 The Spectator contains..much sensible and sound morality; but it is not a very high order of Christian ethics.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 1 The Ethics of Paganism were part of a philosophy.

1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xi. 492 It is wrong to live in accordance with the Horatian ethics.

1971 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 984/1 The samurai code embraced more than the practice of Zen and the ethics of Japanese forms of Confucianism.

2006 Philos. Now Feb. 40/2 Arguably no one can practice Kantian ethics, given that to be ethical would, for Kant, amount to having no motivation of one's own.

b. The moral principles or values held or shown by an individual person.

ΚΠ

1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism i. 27 But these friends of ours, my Lord, are as much mistaken in their ethics, as the event will shew they have been in their politics.

1802 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. Suppl. No. 2. 1582 His ethics seem worthy of the proceedings that are honoured with his approbation.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 47 It is not the province of man to pronounce judgment on the ethics of his fellow-creature, in the last extremities of starvation.

1864 B. Taylor John Godfrey's Fortunes xxx. 388 ‘Do you think, sir, that God would forgive me for the lie?’ Her simple question brought confusion upon my ethics.

1900 Philadelphia Med. Jrnl. 8 Dec. 1076/1 He has no ethics, and is a mere business man, as he would say, ‘out for the stuff’.

1931 C. J. Daly Third Murderer ix. 83 You go around with a gun in your hand and the peculiar idea of personal ethics which allow you to knock over some gunman and trust to the city to give him a decent burial.

2010 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 41/2 Colonists were warned that God was disappointed in them, so they should improve not just their individual ethics but their collective social behavior.

c. The codes of conduct or moral principles recognized in a particular profession, sphere of activity, relationship, or other context or aspect of human life.situation, situational ethics: see the first element; business ethics: see business ethic n. at business n. Compounds 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > collectively > of certain professions or spheres

etiquette1788

ethics1789

1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xviii. §46 Now to instruct each individual in what manner to govern his own conduct in the details of life, is the particular business of private ethics.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. 279 Sea rights, and sea ethics were by no means so distinctly defined as they are now.

1870 R. W. Dale Week-day Serm. vii. 163 The ethics of dining.

1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. ix. 185 The peculiar scope of our Church ethics for the last thirty years has been the culture of works of compassion.

1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Ethics, medical, the laws of the duties of medical men to the public, to each other, and to themselves in regard to the exercise of their profession.

1904 G. F. Lydston Dis. of Society iii. 82 Certain breaches of socio-sexual ethics, such as adultery and seduction, are classified in most States as crimes.

1958 Nursing (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xxi. 252 Nursing ethics are..the principles of life observed by those who care for the sick in any way, and apply to the auxiliary nurse just as much as to the trained nurse.

2005 J. Witte & R. M. Kingdon Sex, Marriage & Family in John Calvin's Geneva iii. 95 While the Bible said a great deal about the sins of fornication, it said little about the ethics of courtship.

Compounds

General attributive, esp. with reference to the codes of conduct recognized in a particular profession or practice and their regulation, as ethics code, ethics committee, ethics panel, etc. (cf. sense 2c).

ΚΠ

1871 Atlanta Constit. 5 May The National Medical Association..referred the standing of Townsend, of Philadelphia, to the Ethics Committee.

1909 Proc. 42nd Ann Convent. Amer. Inst. Architects 205 I hope that the Convention will clearly comprehend..the idea of a competition code and an ethics code.

1922 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 101 121 (heading) Chairman of the Ethics Commission of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

1968 ABA Jrnl. Jan. 80/2 A Committee on Standards of Official Conduct..to develop an enforceable ethics code for members and employees.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Apr. 1/4 The ethics panel's complaint is being held in abeyance pending the outcome of the criminal case.

1992 New Scientist 11 Jan. 44/2 An ethics consultant is called in to give advice on cases which present particularly difficult ethical problems.

2002 K. Warwick I, Cyborg x. 156 We would just have to face the ethics committee at the hospital where the operation would take place.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ethics
释义	ethicsn. Brit. /ˈɛθɪks/, U.S. /ˈɛθɪks/ Forms: late Middle English etikis, late Middle English etiques, late Middle English etyks, late Middle English eytikes, late Middle English–1500s ethyques, late Middle English–1500s etikes, late Middle English–1600s ethikes, late Middle English–1600s ethiques, 1500s ethyckes, 1500s ethycks, 1500s ethykes, 1500s etykes, 1500s–1600s ethickes, 1500s–1700s ethicks, 1600s aethicks, 1600s– ethics. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French ethiques ; ethic adj. Etymology: Originally < Middle French ethiques, ethyques title of a treatise on morals by Aristotle, branch of knowledge dealing with moral principles (both c1370; compare earlier ethique ethic n.), use as noun of plural of ethique , ethyque ethic adj., after post-classical Latin ethica Aristotle's Ethics (c1330, c1440 in British sources; compare liber ethicorum book of Ethics (from c1250 in British sources)), itself after ancient Greek τὰ ἠθικά (plural noun) treatise on morals (Aristotle). In later use also partly < ethic adj. (see -ic suffix 2).Compare Spanish †eticas , plural noun (late 13th cent. in el libro de las eticas , with reference to Aristotle's Ethics). Compare earlier ethic n. and the foreign-language nouns cited at that entry. Moral principles, or a system of these. 1. a. With singular or plural agreement. Now usually with capital initial. (The title of) a study of or treatise on moral principles; spec. that of Aristotle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] philosophy1340 ethica1387 moralityc1390 ethics?a1425 moral philosophyc1443 morals?1566 moral science1656 moral sciences1656 ethology1696 aretaics1865 meta-ethics1938 ?a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Claud.) (1850) Dan. xi. 36 Gloss. The filosofore in j. book of Etikis clepith fleisli liyf, ether lustful liyf, beestli liyf. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 71 (MED) This is that Aristotle seith in etiques. ?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. avii The phylosopher sayth in the viii book of ethyques, that [etc.]. 1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. A.vi^v Arystotle in the fyfte of his Ethikes deuideth Iustice in two speces or kyndes. 1550 R. Sherry tr. Erasmus Declam. Chyldren in Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. K.v^v Thou shuldest reade y^e offices of Cicero, or the Ethickes of Aristotle. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 41 Aristotle in his Ethickes holds,..to be wise and happie are reciprocall termes. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. iv. 112 The same is touched by Aristotle in his Ethicks . View more context for this quotation 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxix. 204 If this gentleman will go back to his Ethics. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. v. 475 Edward himself..read the ethics of Aristotle in Greek. 1858 A. Grant Ethics of Aristotle II. 141/1 Aristotle's Ethics are very little psychological in their character. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. v. 120 It is not by such disgression that a man gets up the Ethics or the Annals. a1907 M. E. Coleridge Poems (1908) 191 But woman's woman, even when She reads her Ethics in the Greek. 1949 G. Highet Classical Trad. vi. 119 Aristotle's Ethics were also translated into French under Charles V. 2008 D. Young Distraction 236 His [sc. Spinoza's] Ethics is his most notable work. b. With singular or †plural agreement. The branch of knowledge or study dealing with moral principles. (a) Generally, or with reference to personal or religious responsibilities. ΚΠ 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Ci Neither is there almost any poeticall fygment, wherein there is not some thing comprehended, taken out..of the Phisicks or Ethicks. 1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxv. 313 Nor wanted thear..that did relye On Physickes and on Ethickes, and..a God deny. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 258 He was made Professor of Eloquence and Ethicks in the Universitie of Ingolstade. 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xxxiii The Stoick [philosophy]: The most noble, most generous..amonst all the Sects, who have given us the Rules of Ethiques. 1708 Edinb. Town Council Minute 16 June in A. Bower Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1817) II. ix. 71 In the first of these classes, the students be taught logic and metaphysics; and, in the last, a compend of ethics and natural philosophy. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Ethological,..pertaining to Discourses and Treatises of Ethicks or Morality. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xix. §11 Ethics at large may be defined, the art of directing men's actions to the production of the greatest possible quantity of happiness. 1836 R. W. Emerson Nature vi. 72 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. 1877 H. Sidgwick Suppl. Methods of Ethics i. i. 2 Ethics is sometimes considered as an investigation of the true Moral laws or rational Rules of Conduct; sometimes as an inquiry into the nature of the ultimate End of human action. 1913 Relig. Educ. June 195 I have taught ethics for fifteen years in five private schools for girls in Boston. 1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. iv. 6/7 She appears to be an intellectual powerhouse, a tireless debater of ethics and philosophy. (b) With reference to a wider sphere that includes law and politics as well as personal conduct and religion. ΚΠ 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. 27 Jurisprudence..is the principal and most perfect branch of ethics. 1850 G. Field Analogy of Logic ii. iv. 238 Throughout Ethics, Moral, Political, and Religious, the first and pervading principle is Unity. 1902 D. A. Gorton Ethics iv. 129 Not until the principles of ethics, political and economic, are recognized and applied to the relations of men shall peace and prosperity to all classes and conditions of men begin. 1953 Life 28 Sept. 36/3 Since Aristotle the science of politics has been accounted a branch of ethics in most countries of the West. 2001 R. Khanna in E. Bronfen & M. Kavka Feminist Consequences v. 102 The particularization of ethics into codes and laws has moved ethics from the realm of justice to that of law. c. With plural agreement. Moral principles; maxims, precepts, or observations concerning these. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > moral principle(s) principle?1533 ethics1651 moral1688 morale1752 standards1893 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > particular system of ethics1651 morality1680 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 288 God's laws, standing at the top of our Ethicks. a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 195 Out of them [sc. St. Paul's epistles] might well be compiled a Body of Ethicks, or System of Precepts de officiis. 1678 R. L'Estrange in tr. Seneca's Morals: Of Benefits To Rdr. p. iii I have reduc'd all his scatter'd Ethiques to their proper Heads. 1690 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue ii. 34 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. The Sum of His [sc. Confutius'] Writings, seems to be a Body or Digestion of Ethicks, that is, of all Moral Vertues, either Personal, Oeconomical, Civil or Political. 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man (rev. ed.) Design sig. a^v If I could flatter my self that this Essay has any Merit, it is in..forming out of all, a temperate yet not inconsistent, and a short yet not imperfect System of Ethics. 1795 R. Anderson Life Samuel Johnson 282 His essays form a body of ethics; the observations on life and manners are acute. 1840 Church of Eng. Q. Rev. 7 15 Charges of ‘legality’, ‘preaching ethics’, &c. 1852 Househ. Words 13 Nov. 214/1 They will dance, flirt, walk, talk, and make merry with you, and spout poetry and ethics by the yard. 1912 N. Douglas Fountains in Sand xii. 138 To justify some base plan of action by re-stating ethics in terms of hunger. 1994 W. N. Herbert Forked Tongue 93 Women beware men with ethics in their mouths. 2. With singular or plural agreement. In narrower sense, specified or understood from the context. a. The moral principles or system associated with a particular leader, thinker, school of thought, or area of enquiry, or with a particular historical period.teleological ethics: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > moral principle(s) > of a specific leader or school of thought ethics1649 1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. iv. 203 What foul errors are in the Ethicks of their most rigid Moralists? 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 31 If the Atheists would but live up to the Ethics of Epicurus himself. 1764 W. Dodd Visitor II. lvii. 89 Humility is the virtue..which singly may well be esteemed superior to all the ethics of antiquity. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 34 This philosophical instructor [sc. Rousseau] in the ethicks of vanity. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1855) vii. 232 The Spectator contains..much sensible and sound morality; but it is not a very high order of Christian ethics. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 1 The Ethics of Paganism were part of a philosophy. 1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xi. 492 It is wrong to live in accordance with the Horatian ethics. 1971 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 984/1 The samurai code embraced more than the practice of Zen and the ethics of Japanese forms of Confucianism. 2006 Philos. Now Feb. 40/2 Arguably no one can practice Kantian ethics, given that to be ethical would, for Kant, amount to having no motivation of one's own. b. The moral principles or values held or shown by an individual person. ΚΠ 1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism i. 27 But these friends of ours, my Lord, are as much mistaken in their ethics, as the event will shew they have been in their politics. 1802 Cobbett's Ann. Reg. Suppl. No. 2. 1582 His ethics seem worthy of the proceedings that are honoured with his approbation. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 47 It is not the province of man to pronounce judgment on the ethics of his fellow-creature, in the last extremities of starvation. 1864 B. Taylor John Godfrey's Fortunes xxx. 388 ‘Do you think, sir, that God would forgive me for the lie?’ Her simple question brought confusion upon my ethics. 1900 Philadelphia Med. Jrnl. 8 Dec. 1076/1 He has no ethics, and is a mere business man, as he would say, ‘out for the stuff’. 1931 C. J. Daly Third Murderer ix. 83 You go around with a gun in your hand and the peculiar idea of personal ethics which allow you to knock over some gunman and trust to the city to give him a decent burial. 2010 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 41/2 Colonists were warned that God was disappointed in them, so they should improve not just their individual ethics but their collective social behavior. c. The codes of conduct or moral principles recognized in a particular profession, sphere of activity, relationship, or other context or aspect of human life.situation, situational ethics: see the first element; business ethics: see business ethic n. at business n. Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > collectively > of certain professions or spheres etiquette1788 ethics1789 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xviii. §46 Now to instruct each individual in what manner to govern his own conduct in the details of life, is the particular business of private ethics. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. 279 Sea rights, and sea ethics were by no means so distinctly defined as they are now. 1870 R. W. Dale Week-day Serm. vii. 163 The ethics of dining. 1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. ix. 185 The peculiar scope of our Church ethics for the last thirty years has been the culture of works of compassion. 1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Ethics, medical, the laws of the duties of medical men to the public, to each other, and to themselves in regard to the exercise of their profession. 1904 G. F. Lydston Dis. of Society iii. 82 Certain breaches of socio-sexual ethics, such as adultery and seduction, are classified in most States as crimes. 1958 Nursing (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xxi. 252 Nursing ethics are..the principles of life observed by those who care for the sick in any way, and apply to the auxiliary nurse just as much as to the trained nurse. 2005 J. Witte & R. M. Kingdon Sex, Marriage & Family in John Calvin's Geneva iii. 95 While the Bible said a great deal about the sins of fornication, it said little about the ethics of courtship. Compounds General attributive, esp. with reference to the codes of conduct recognized in a particular profession or practice and their regulation, as ethics code, ethics committee, ethics panel, etc. (cf. sense 2c). ΚΠ 1871 Atlanta Constit. 5 May The National Medical Association..referred the standing of Townsend, of Philadelphia, to the Ethics Committee. 1909 Proc. 42nd Ann Convent. Amer. Inst. Architects 205 I hope that the Convention will clearly comprehend..the idea of a competition code and an ethics code. 1922 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 101 121 (heading) Chairman of the Ethics Commission of the Pennsylvania State Education Association. 1968 ABA Jrnl. Jan. 80/2 A Committee on Standards of Official Conduct..to develop an enforceable ethics code for members and employees. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Apr. 1/4 The ethics panel's complaint is being held in abeyance pending the outcome of the criminal case. 1992 New Scientist 11 Jan. 44/2 An ethics consultant is called in to give advice on cases which present particularly difficult ethical problems. 2002 K. Warwick I, Cyborg x. 156 We would just have to face the ethics committee at the hospital where the operation would take place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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