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English noun: ethics | |||
| 1. | ethics (motive) motivation based on ideas of right and wrong | ||
| Synonyms | ethical motive, morality, morals | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | motivation, motive, need | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Christ Within, conscience, hedonism, Inner Light, Light, Light Within, moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong | ||
| 2. | ethics (cognition) the philosophical study of moral values and rules | ||
| Synonyms | moral philosophy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | philosophy | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bioethics, casuistry, endaemonism, eudemonism, hedonism | ||
| Domain category members | descriptivism, egoism, prescriptivism | ||
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