ETHICS  倫理學

PRINCIPLES IN-RELATION-TO the JUDGMENT of BEHAVIOUR as MORE OR LESS GOOD OR MORE OR LESS BAD.
MORALMORAL CODEMORALSMORALITYVALUESRIGHTS AND WRONGSPRINCIPLESIDEALSSTANDARDS (OF BEHAVIOR)VALUE SYSTEMVIRTUESDICTATES OF CONSCIENCE
Hypernym
  • PRINCIPLEBASIC FEATURE of a DOCTRINE OR A SYSTEM of RULES.
    • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE.
      • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to.
See also
  • MORALITYVIRTUE of REFLECTING SYSTEMATICALLY on WHAT IS GOOD ACT:act AND a GOOD LIFE.
    • CONSCIENCEMIND:mental ORGAN of INDEPENDENT MORAL JUDGMENT of ONESELF.
      Hyponym
      • CULTURE　SYSTEM of MORALITY, AESTHETIC SENSIBILITIES, AND CUSTOMS in a SOCIETY.
        • SUBCULTURE　NOT POWERFUL CULTURE WHICH EXISTS WITHIN A MORE POWERFUL CULTURE.
        • CIVILISATION　INTENSELY DEVELOPED COMPLEX CULTURE
      Old Chinese Criteria
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      There is no abstract concept of ethics in pre-Buddhist Chinese.

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      倫理學

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      Old Chinese Contrasts
      MORALITY is universal, ETHICS is local, and DEONTOLOGY is theoretical. The KEY IDEA of ethics is that not only actions are to be preferred because they are prescribed as good or bad, but that also competing systems of preference or prescription regarding what is good or bad must themselves be preferred to each other on a principled and reasoned basis.

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