Synonyms:
ethical_motive, ethics, morals, morality
Meaning: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
Usage examples
"He coached me in ethics."
He scored second in Medical Ethics only to Christina Ryan.
I think there are times when Andy don't exactly understand my system of ethics and moral hygiene.
This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics.
The pursuit of this subject belongs to ethics, where the impossibility of deducing what ought to be from what is has to be established.
There had been a medical lobby long before, but it had been a conservative group, mostly concerned with protecting medical autonomy and ethics.
Very soon, also, her sportsmen will raise the standard of ethics in shotgun shooting, by barring out the automatic and pump shotguns so much beloved by the market shooters.
These essays are concerned only to discuss the actual fact that the central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles' Creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.
It would, therefore, be just as absurd to expect that our moral systems and ethics will produce virtuous, noble, and holy men, as that our aesthetics will produce poets, painters, and musicians.
This important point of ethics being settled, Anne prepared to mount the aforesaid "little house," a construction of lathes, with a peaked roof, which had in times past served as a habitation for ducks.