Ethics of the business-broker ought to strictly represent his principles and not get in on the buying," he said to Thompson.
Aside from the ethics of the matter, I'm afraid it isn't practicable.
This is evidently of the same class as the last poem, if not as evidently addressed to the same person.
The habit of direct copying from the works of predecessors was fixed in the literaryethics of the day.
The accomplishment of ethics by the enactment of laws always fails, and always will fail, except in those cases where there is a strong trend of public opinion to the same end.
Even animal and sub-human ethics regard the right of the individual to his accumulated store and the home he has builded.
But the ethics of Confucius have not saved the Chinese nation from stagnation and death.
There are even some writers on ethics who lay it down that one ought to abide by one's choice so as not to be inconstant or appear so.
It held the first place in their system, ethics and physics ranking after it.
The ethics of exploitation needed many centuries in order to subvert that of cannibalism: why should the relapse into the ethics of cannibalism proceed so much more rapidly?
In such a case, the concord between productivity and consumption, labour and right, would have recovered the old basis, and as a consequence the ethics of mankind might also remain in the same track.
Cause and effect must correspond--the ethics of the cannibal epoch must triumphantly return.
But to call this ethics 'philanthropy' is the strangest of mistakes.
Believing profoundly in scientific method, Renan was unable to find in science a basis for either ethics or metaphysics, and ended in a skepticism often ironical, yet not untinged with mysticism.
Footnote: Teleology considers nature as a kingdom of ends; Ethicsregards a possible kingdom of ends as a kingdom of nature.
It belongs to ethics proper to define this principle more precisely so as to avoid all misunderstanding, e.
This implies that we first found Ethics on Metaphysics, and then, when it is firmly established, procure a hearing for it by giving it a popular character.
Another exhibition of your arrogance, impudence, general bad manners and lack of knowledge of the ethics of your profession will result in prompt dismissal from the service of the Blue Star Navigation Company.
Men that taught me nautical ethics expected things done without orders, minus thanks for doing them well, plus abuse for doing them poorly.
Like a dutiful servant he forgave Cappy the letter's reference to arrogance, impudence and general bad manners; but the reference to his lack of knowledge of the ethics of his profession made him fighting mad.
Gentlemen, let no one trifle with the principles of Ethics and Jurisprudence; human society cannot get along without them.
A second principle of Ethics in medical practice, gentlemen, is this, that many human acts may be highly criminal of which, however, human laws and courts take no notice whatsoever.
I do not deny that a certain school of scientists is trying to rewrite all history and all Ethics and Jurisprudence.
Before we remodel our codes of Ethics and Jurisprudence by the admission into them of such destructive and revolutionary principles, we shall at least be allowed to challenge these aggressors and ask solid proof of their rash innovations.
But the writer strangely misstates the case when he says that "all great writers on ethics and politics" agree with Mr. Spencer.
So you must respect the eternal laws that direct the current of man's moral actions, the principles of Ethics and Jurisprudence.
We are learning through Herbert Spencer and all late writers on ethics and politics, that the same principle will best explain the facts" (p.
The Doctor herein clearly demonstrates that, in this matter at least, Ethics and Medical Science are to-day perfectly concordant.
There is a sound moral principle bearing on such cases; it is universally admitted in Ethics and Jurisprudence, and its application is so extensive that it well deserves careful study.
The learned physician these days is no longer afraid to face the moral philosopher; there is no longer any estrangement between Ethics and Medical Practice.
It is against those clear principles of psychology and ethics which are not only speculatively evident, but practically necessary to maintain the fabric of human society.
The ethics of practical joking had been observed fairly enough.
But ethics are ethics: the great principles of morals, as proclaimed either by science or by religion, do not fluctuate for sex; their basis is in the very foundations of right itself.
The moral is that, as tested by the common sense of these young people, duty is duty, and the difference between ethics for men and ethics for women lies simply in practical applications, not in principles.
If our instructors in moral philosophy will only base their theory of ethics as broadly as this, we shall no longer need to advertise "Homes Wanted;" for the joint efforts of men and women will soon provide them.
It is probable that the ethics of modern athletic contests would not countenance such expedients.
The ethics of quackery are probably on the same plane everywhere; and not only are the spells forthcoming, if sufficient compensation be assured, but they are also more or less effective, through the power of suggestion, as therapeutic agents.
Says Chambers' Cyclopaedia: "Aside from the domestic relations, the ethics of the Mohammedan religion are of the highest order.
Thus it afforded an opening for Portia's eloquent contrast between justice and mercy, which the public understood as an assertion of the superiority of Christian ethics to the Jewish insistence on the letter of the law.
It is not a sense of the ethics of Homer, but a feeling for his poetry that is lacking.
No less impossible is the theory (also nourished in Gervinus' imagination) that the poet of the English Renaissance was offended by the loose ethics of Homeric poetry.
In other words, Shakespeare now sees clearly that the ethics of intention are the only true, the only possible ethics.
Aesthetics, in fact, are to Ethics in the sphere of conscious civilisation, what, in the sphere of the external world, sexual is to natural selection.
The divorce of education from religion is still on its trial in Western countries, which rely upon a highly-developed code of ethics and an inherited sense of social and civic duty to supply the place of religious sanctions.
Nor were the ethicsof education, altogether forgotten in their bearings upon the maintenance of healthy discipline.
It is especially true that the systems of the East are all deeply affected by the higher ethics and purer religious conceptions borrowed from Christianity.
In the sphere of ethics the different faiths of men may find much common ground, while in their religious elements they may be entirely true or utterly false.
Had not Taouism been balanced by the sturdy common-sense ethics of Confucianism, the Chinese might have become a race of savages.
Professor Huxley and others, in our time, are trying to elaborate some basis of ethics independently of religion.
It has appropriated many of those Christian ethics which have been learned from a century of contact with missionaries and other Christian residents.
The ethics of the heathen will be found to vindicate the doctrines of the Bible.
Christian ethics begin with our relations to God as supreme, and they embrace the present life and the world to come.
While this is a specimen of the critical side of rationalism, its dogmatic side varied from natural ethics to a kind of Socinianism.
But when we deal with moral as distinct from material relations, we feel that there is a question of philosophy as well as science, one of ethics and metaphysics, which rises above all lower ones.
The large work of Lactantius, the Institutiones Divinæ, is a work of ethics as well as of defence.
Like the former it starts with the idea of the identity of ethics and religion.
Reason was to work out the system of natural theology, and ethics the problem of the nature and ground of virtue.
In successive works his views onethics and religion were gradually developed, until, in his Glaubenslehre (31) he produced one of the most important theological systems ever conceived.
Christianity was replaced by materialism, theism by atheism, ethics by selfishness.
When he applied his system to give a philosophy of ethics and religion, he asserted nobly the law of duty written in the heart,(714) but identified it with religion.
Vinet tried to harmonize religion and knowledge, by presenting Christianity on the ground of its internal rather than its external evidence, and proclaimed it as ethics built on doctrine; which doctrine he held to be built on historic fact.
The mind of man could scarcely rise higher in ethics of worship, as in solemn splendour the beasts are slain, and the prostrate Emperor under the starlit sky calls upon the unknown god.
Even the high ethics of Confucianism can recognise no higher position for woman than one of obedient dependence throughout life.
We recognize the value of a principle which can supply a connecting link between Ethics and Politics, and under which all human actions are or may be included.
But the utilitarian will fairly reply (see above) that we must distinguish the origin ofethics from the principles of them--the historical germ from the later growth of reflection.
The difficulties of ethics disappear when we do not suffer ourselves to be distracted between different points of view.
In his eagerness for generalization, seeking, as Aristotle says, for the universal in Ethics (Metaph.
In the resolutions recently adopted by the Boston Society of Architects concerning professional ethics it was maintained that architects should not advertise.
Apropos of the perennial discussion of the question of professional ethics which from time to time comes into prominence in the meetings of the American Institute of Architects the following may be of interest.
Bushido as an independent code of ethics may vanish, but its power will not perish from the earth; its schools of martial prowess or civic honor may be demolished, but its light and its glory will long survive their ruins.
It, perhaps, fills the same position in the history of ethics that the English Constitution does in political history; yet it has had nothing to compare with the Magna Charta or the Habeas Corpus Act.
But in the martial ethics of Bushido, the main water-shed dividing the good and the bad was sought elsewhere.
It will be long before it will be recognized how many fortunes were wrecked in the attempt to apply Bushido ethics to business methods; but it was soon patent to every observing mind that the ways of wealth were not the ways of honor.
Griffis[17] was quite right in stating that whereas in China Confucian ethics made obedience to parents the primary human duty, in Japan precedence was given to Loyalty.
All was easy so long as ethics was directly associated with the prevailing religious confession.
The following lectures were delivered in the School of Applied Ethics during its first session in 1891, at Plymouth, Mass.
To illustrate, the ethics of childhood may be summarized as follows: The personal duties of a child are chiefly the observance of a few simple rules of health and the curbing of its temper.
The attempt to find an independent basis for ethics in the science of sociology has developed conflicting systems.
The definition of ethics as a science of relations or limits removes this stumbling-block.
Under the head of duties peculiar to the various avocations should be discussed the ethics of the professions, the ethics of the relations between employers and laborers, etc.
The ideal which ethics proposes to itself is the unity of ends, just as the ideal of science is the unity of causes.
The ethics of suicide resolves itself into the question, Is it justifiable under any circumstances to take one's life?
Did they remember that ethics is a science of relations, or, what amounts to the same thing, a science of limits, they would be saved such pedantry.
But here, again, the true attitude is indicated by the definition of ethics as a science of limits.
Ethics condemns vanity and whatever ministers to vanity--as, e.
The ends of the natural man are the subject-matter with which ethics deals.
This question serves to show to what absurdities a purely formal principle in ethicscan lead, as we have already seen in the discussion of truthfulness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ethics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
