As a result, the decline of traditional ethics and the family system was accelerated, the emancipation of women gathered momentum, a vernacular literature emerged, and the modernized intelligentsia became a major factor in China's subsequent political developments.
When I was twelve years old and immersed in Alister MacLean, my father bemoaned the decline of reading ethics.
All of these rapid changes in modern society including globalization, increased cross-cultural contact, climate change and environmental deterioration, the development and deployment of new technologies as well as the decline of traditional ethics and values, have magnified individual abilities to do good or bad, leading to new challenges in global bioethics.
Pundits have traced the decline of Wall Street ethics from the morphing of partnership-owned investment banks to financial corporations, as well as the enormous growth of financial markets that bred outright greed.
John Winter, a high jump gold medallist at the 1948 London Games, said the latest scandal was an example of declining ethics in sport and business generally.
As part of the fund family's code of ethics, Montgomery also declines to personally invest in any individual stocks.
Tony Abbott welcomed what he called a "warm statement" from the Indonesian president, but declined to commit immediately to a code of ethics.
The Republican senators' letter, he said, was "a sign of a decline in political ethics and the destruction of the American establishment from within".
His road to ethics and the decline of morality in American public and private life had an unusual start.
All these issues -- declining combat effectiveness, increasing acquisition mismanagement, inadequate training and the lack of ethics in defense advocacy -- merit serious discussion.
