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Ethics vs. Scruples — What's the Difference?

Ethics vs. Scruples — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ethics and Scruples

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Ethics

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns matters of value; these fields comprise the branch of philosophy called axiology.Ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality by defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.

Scruples

An uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action
"He would have taken any life with as little scruple as he took my money" (Charles Dickens).

Ethics

Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity
A code of ethics
Medical ethics also enter into the question

Scruples

A unit of apothecary weight equal to about 1.3 grams, or 20 grains.

Ethics

The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles
Neither metaphysics nor ethics is the home of religion
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Scruples

A minute part or amount.

Ethics

A set of principles of right conduct.

Scruples

To hesitate as a result of conscience or principle
"A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket" (John Dennis).

Ethics

A theory or a system of moral values
"An ethic of service is at war with a craving for gain" (Gregg Easterbrook).

Scruples

Plural of scruple

Ethics

Ethics (used with a sing. verb) The study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person; moral philosophy.

Scruples

Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

Ethics

Ethics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession
Medical ethics.

Ethics

(philosophy) The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.

Ethics

Morality.

Ethics

The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.

Ethics

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.
The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught.

Ethics

Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

Ethics

The philosophical study of moral values and rules

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