ethical foundation

collocation in English

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ethical
adjective
uk
/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/
relating to beliefs about what is morally right ...
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foundation
noun
uk
/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/us
/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when an organization, state, etc. ...
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(Definition ofethicalandfoundationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is clear that (a) lacksethicalfoundation.
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There is therefore no doubt that we take a pragmatic approach, but it is based on a strongethicalfoundation.
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A public service with a strongethicalfoundation, funded mainly from taxation, accountable to the people and providing services for all.
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However, many laws are based on norms accepted by a community and thus have anethicalfoundation.
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The policies of a company should have goodethicalfoundationto promote morality in the employer, employee and customer relationship.
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Gove has argued that the only sustainableethicalfoundationfor society is a belief in the innate worth and dignity of every individual.
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Theethicalfoundationof democratic transhumanism rests upon rule utilitarianism and non-anthropocentric personhood theory.
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Information transmission and literacy are essential concerns in establishing anethicalfoundationthat promotes fair, equitable, and responsible practices.
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It has as its subject matter the philosophical, especially methodological, ontological, epistemological, anthropological, and ethical foundations of the individual sciences.
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He would have been horrified at the suggestion that economics was "built on broad ethical foundations" (2005: 225).
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These ethical foundations, it is claimed, 'are now regarded to be a settled matter' (2005: 222).
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In other cases, scientists and medics consider that any application of a therapeutic intervention for non-therapeutic or enhancing purposes compromises theethicalfoundationof medicine and the spirit of sport.
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Government was regarded as the practical, tangible manifestation of political power, and as something that ultimately underlined the moral and ethical foundations of political authority.
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Sections 2 and 3 build on the model to offer an account of the ethical foundations of modern economics.
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To take dharma out of politics would have been to erode its ethical foundations.
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So, the ethical foundations of modern economics are regarded as unspoken assumptions in research publications.
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Modern economics is built on broad ethical foundations, capable of being reduced as special cases to the various ethical theories that are currently on offer.
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It demanded balance to work effectively in performance, but was also able to balance contradictory meanings as part of its critical exploration of theatre's processes and their ethical foundations.
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In the course of the century, however, the increasing complexity of the market and the enlargement of exchange areas placed a strain on the ethical foundations of the market.
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It must be a service with a long-term view, and a public service with strong ethical foundations.
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