Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A specialist in ethics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer on ethics; one versed in ethical science.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is versed in ethics, or has written on ethics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person, especially a
philosopher , who studiesprinciples governingright andwrong conduct . - noun A person who
advocates aparticular set of principles governing right and wrong conduct.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a philosopher who specializes in ethics
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Examples
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The title comes from a line in ethicist J. Howard Moore's The Universal Kinship (1906): "They are not conveniences, but cousins."
Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity 2001
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The ethicist is a critic, identifying and assessing research gone awry.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jere 2008
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The ethicist is a critic, identifying and assessing research gone awry.
LIS: Writing About What Works? Jere 2008
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The concerns of the ethicist were the ones I wrote about in my previous post guess why.
Lean Left » Blog Archive » Borat: Make Learnings From Different Perspectives (Pt. II) 2006
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Indeed, one of the Norwegian scenes that got omitted from the theatrical release of Sicko was an interview with a government "ethicist" whose job it is to make sure health care funds get invested in healthy - as in no harm to people - investments.
Ellen Snortland: Sicko Reprise, Please Ellen Snortland 2010
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It uses an "ethicist" to base its moral position on, and therein lies the rub.
Links Hal Duncan 2009
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Indeed, one of the Norwegian scenes that got omitted from the theatrical release of Sicko was an interview with a government "ethicist" whose job it is to make sure health care funds get invested in healthy - as in no harm to people - investments.
Ellen Snortland: Sicko Reprise, Please Ellen Snortland 2010
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Indeed, one of the Norwegian scenes that got omitted from the theatrical release of Sicko was an interview with a government "ethicist" whose job it is to make sure health care funds get invested in healthy - as in no harm to people - investments.
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When the government-owned ABC and SBS TV and radio stations interview an 'ethicist', it's always one of them, but this identification is never made.
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In fact, Tonti-Filippini has a lock on the "ethicist" position whenever the media quotes one, and he is not only is not identified as a Vatican emissary, but he lists himself as "independent".
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