ethical justification

collocation in English

meaningsofethicalandjustification

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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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justification
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌdʒʌs.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdʒʌs.tə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a good reason or explanation ...
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(Definition ofethicalandjustificationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Using collective action to maintain professional control without concern about the intended ways that control might be used is weakethicaljustification.
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This suggests thatethicaljustificationmay need to follow a better understanding of the radical mindset of self-demand amputees.
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This argument provides a sufficient medical andethicaljustificationfor constraining physician discretion.
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The role consent plays for the transfer of political legitimacy - which is the context this paper focuses on - derives from thisethicaljustification.
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Similarly, there is noethicaljustificationfor a parent's exposing a child even to "minimal risk" in a medical experiment that will not benefit the child in any way.
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The moral andethicaljustificationis enough in itself, but there are broad and sound economic and social reasons as well.
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There is no moral orethicaljustificationof this kind of horrible attack.
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There is noethicaljustificationfor not doing so.
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The onlyethicaljustificationis that a man must not get something for nothing.
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Imperialism; and perhaps it had noethicaljustification.
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I cannot accept that there can be any moral orethicaljustificationfor that kind of situation.
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What is theethicaljustification?
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Thus, according to general consensus, these experiments requireethicaljustification.
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This is echoed in stanzas four and five, which provideethicaljustificationfor the workers claim to all the world.
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These individuals are entitled to protection, and additionalethicaljustificationis needed to involve such populations in human subject studies.
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What ethical justifications can be provided to support research involving vegetative and minimally conscious patients?
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Ethical justifications are reinforced by expert medical consensus about prognosis of irreversible loss of consciousness and absence of conflict among family members.
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Another approach denies the meaningfulness of anyethicaljustificationfor existing copyright law, viewing it simply as a result (and perhaps an undesirable result) of political processes.
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But to the extent that it remains unclear just how the metric of advantage is fixed in the face of competing ethical justifications, this method is indeterminate.
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