ethical significance

collocation in English

meanings of ethicaland significance

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ethical
adjective
uk /ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˈeθ.ɪ.kəl/
relating to beliefs about what is morally right ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/ us /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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Examples of ethical significance

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Finally, a question might be raised about the ethicalsignificance of our results on the distribution of wealth.
First, philosophers have devoted attention to the ethicalsignificance of nationality and patriotism, asking whether an impartial morality permits disparate treatment of an individual's co-nationals.
So because of the strong pressure to vindicate the platitude about ethicalsignificance, there is also strong pressure to vindicate the utilitarian and prioritarian presupposition.
That is because of the platitude about ethicalsignificance.
This result will be important when we return to the platitude about ethicalsignificance.
By ethicalsignificance, we believe that there are at least two prerequisites to demonstrate ethical relevance.
However, it is not at all easy to judge the ethicalsignificance of this difference.
In this, as in so many policy positions with ethicalsignificance, both the clarity of intention and the responsiveness of the agent are important.
The labour movement had long recognized that work was not merely a site of economic activity but also one of political and ethicalsignificance.
The first platitude we saw was the platitude about ethicalsignificance.
Historically, the courts of common law have taken the view that such promises are of spiritual or ethicalsignificance and so cannot be adjudicated at common law.
God answers our prayers because of the ethicalsignificance of so doing.
I submit that the current state of the criminal law and medical practice hold properly balanced a subject of deep medical and ethicalsignificance.
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Withal, the nearer a causal consequence of our action is, the higher its ethicalsignificance.
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The author states that in its derivation, it may have an ethicalsignificance.
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