ethical norms
collocation in Englishmeaningsofethicalandnorm
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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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norm
noun[C usually plural]
uk/nɔːm/us/nɔːrm/
an accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people ...
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(Definition ofethicalandnormfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Firstly, in order to experience theethicalnorm, external divine intervention is necessary.
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Its enforcement in everyday life was motivated by appeal to several ethical norms.
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At this same time, there was a pervasive social reassessment of the ethical norms governing medical practice as well as particular reevaluation of informed consent.
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Regardless of his specific alternative, the key point is that general ethical norms are controlling, not norms specified by the profession for itself.
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This shows that the way for ward is contentious, since the ethical norms underpinning a particular claim of offensiveness may themselves be disputable.
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In each case, the contrast with established ethical norms contributes to the humor.
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Physicians, as those in the profession are generally loath to admit, have repeatedly grossly and systematically violated ethical norms.
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But if there is no such plan, nature seems like an odd place to start looking for ethical norms.
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Thus, it offers absolute ethical norms.
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Notice that there is nothing in the concept of tolerance itself that requires us to believe that everybody's beliefs and ethical norms are equally valid.
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There are possible systems of ethical norms as there are possible systems of epistemic norms, some of them providing better models of our epistemic and ethical practice than others.
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Rather, the point of this article was to shed philosophical light on the ethical norms and governing attitudes clinicians must adopt when they take the value of cultural competence seriously.
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In doing so, we invert the claim of cultural objectivity (ethical norms) upon epistemological objectivity (certainty), and enter into a confusion of expectations, of evaluations, even topics.
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Descriptive ethical relativism is the position that, as a matter of fact, people from different societies often accept different ethical norms and thus disagree about many moral issues.
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One need only consult one's own experiences abroad to produce a few exemplary observations of how people in different cultures sometimes seem to follow different ethical norms.
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Early modern nature was incapable of "hard" facts, in the sense of unpleasant truths that vitiate ethical norms, for nature and enlightened morality joined together in prearranged harmony.
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Such codes are vital for institutions as well as individuals, mobilising authority and peer pressure behind ethical norms and translating general values into specific expectations.
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