577

Ethics

Scope Note

Abstract ethical ideals (e.g., truth, righteousness, justice); ideals of individual virtue (e.g., honesty, loyalty, industry, courage, temperance, tolerance, filial piety); notions of right and wrong; conception of conscience and character; incidence and causes of, and attitudes toward breaches of ethics (e.g., lying, cowardice, flouting of kinship obligations); conflicts between ideal values and practical considerations; gender-typed attitudes and values; etc.

Broader Term
570 Interpersonal Relations
Related Terms
150 Behavior Processes And Personality
181 Ethos
183 Norms
461 Labor And Leisure
517 Leisure Time Activities
548 Illegal Entertainment
626 Social Control
641 Citizenship
670 Law
673 Wrongs
674 Crime
689 Social Offenses
693 Legal And Judicial Personnel
703 Discipline And Morale
759 Medical Personnel
812 Philosophy
828 Ethnopsychology
831 Sexuality
834 General Sex Restrictions
867 Transmission Of Cultural Norms
Use Fors
Altruism (ethical ideal)
Breach of ethics (ethics)
Collectivism (ethic)
Conscience (ideas about)
Conscientious objectors (ethics)
Courage (ideal)
Cowardice (breach of ethics)
Filial piety (ethical ideal)
Gender-typed ethical attitudes and values
Good conduct (ethics)
Harmony (ethical ideal)
Honesty (ethical ideal)
Honor (ethical ideal)
Human rights (ethical principle)
Idealism (ethics)
Ideals (ethics)
Impiety (breach of ethics)
Individualism (ethic)
Justice (ideal)
Kinship obligations (flouting)
Loyalty (ideal)
Lying (breach of ethics)
Machismo (ethical ideal)
Morality (ethics)
Morals (ethics)
Piety (filial)
Righteousness (ethical ideal)
Shame (dishonor)
Sportsmanship (ethics)
Temperance (an ideal)
Tolerance (an ideal)
Truth (ethical ideal)
Values (ethical)
Virtue (ideas about)
Wrong and right (ideas about)
Identifier
577

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