ethical theory

collocation in English

meaningsofethicalandtheory

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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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theory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈθɪə.ri/us
/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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(Definition ofethicalandtheoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Such anethicaltheoryis clearly absurd.
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The second debate turned on the role ofethicaltheory.
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In what ways may anethicaltheoryprovide adequate guidance?
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Disjunctive minimalism is a relatively messyethicaltheory.
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Moral philosophy as understood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompassed much more thanethicaltheory.
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He has also published inethicaltheory, philosophical logic, game theory, and dynamics of belief.
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Ethicaltheory, ethnography, and differences between doctors and nurses in approaches to patient care.
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Anyethicaltheoryimplies that agents who without a good excuse act wrongly are morally blameworthy.
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First-order commands are secondary when the status of anethicaltheoryis concerned.
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And the result is an error theory about all thisethicaltheory.
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They show how anethicaltheorycan be derived using logic and mathematics.
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He believes that 'any sensibleethicaltheory' must recognize this fact.
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Abstracted from them he is not a subject forethicaltheory.
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Some view rules as preexisting norms whose justifications derive from on high, inethicaltheory.
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But it is not helpful in the way traditionalethicaltheoryhoped to be.
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His research interests lie primarily withinethicaltheoryand applied ethics.
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The final challenge in defending disjunctive minimalism is showing that it can fit into a sufficiently coherent generalethicaltheory.
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It seems to me such a problem that some sort of flexibility inethicaltheoryhas to be accepted.
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Ethicaltheorycan also bring into doubt intuitions that seem so obvious that we take them for granted.
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A vast amount ofethicaltheorytakes utilitarianism seriously, if not by arguing for it, then by reacting against it.
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The thought is, presumably, that these views capture important intuitions with which anyethicaltheoryshould be compatible.
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Anethicaltheorythat fails to accommodate (a) and (b) fails to protect autonomy understood as self-governance.
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But assessing whether anethicaltheoryprovides adequate guidance may have to rely on auxiliary assumptions about autonomy.
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Ethicaltheory, however, remains important in challenging unwarranted assumptions and supporting a more sophisticated analysis of issues.
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Noethicaltheoryand no version of obstetric ethics based on beneficence and respect for autonomy obligate the physician to attempt the impossible.
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