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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ethics \Eth"ics\ ([e^]th"[i^]ks), noun [Cf. F. ['e]thique. See {Ethic}.] 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. --I. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ethics
noun
1: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong [syn: {ethical motive}, {morals}, {morality}]
2: the philosophical study of moral values and rules [syn: {moral philosophy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "ethics": aesthetics, allegiance, assigned task, axiology, bounden duty, burden, business, call of duty, casuistry, charge, commitment, cosmology, dedication, deference, devoir, devotion, duties and responsibilities, duty, epistemology, fealty, first philosophy, gnosiology, homage, imperative, line of duty, logic, loyalty, mental philosophy, metaphysics, mission, moral philosophy, must, obligation, ontology, onus, ought, phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine, philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry, philosophical speculation, philosophy, place, respect, school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being, self-imposed duty, sophistry, theory of beauty, theory of knowledge, value theory
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
ethics {computer ethics}
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