President Bill Clinton brought in a confessional, talk-show ethic characterized by the early acknowledgment of "causing pain" in his marriage, a precursor to a sex scandal (and apologies) that marked his second term.
In contrast, Baby Boomers are described as holding an exceptionally strong work ethic, characterized by hard work, long hours and loyalty to their employers [ 8, 9].
An alternative view of public health ethics characterizes the moral foundation of public health as social justice.
A rational, non-trivial reading of evidence-based ethics is characterized by a well-justified, context-specific differentiation between empirical information per se and the more qualitatively valuable evidence that has greater weight in the legitimation of action.
Katherine Ebert Wellesley Hills, Mass., Feb. 19, 2010 To the Editor: David Brooks astutely bemoans the failure of American government to fulfill the "promise of the meritocracy," correlating the increased talent level and work ethic that characterize many of today's more modern leaders with an actual decrease in their public standing.
Not only is the ethics of technology characterized by a diversity of approaches, it might even be doubted whether something like a subdiscipline of ethics of technology, in the sense of a community of scholars working on a common set of problems, exists.
From this perspective her ethics of ambiguity might be characterized as an ethics of existential hope.
The new fields of ethical reflection are often characterized as applied ethics, that is, as applications of theories, normative standards, concepts and methods developed in moral philosophy.
Mohist ethics and epistemology are characterized by a concern with finding objective standards that will guide judgment and action reliably and impartially so as to produce beneficial, morally right consequences.
This seems to be in direct violation of the Hatch Act that bans federal officials from attempting to influence an election (especially a presidential election just 11 days away), which former Bush Administration chief ethics lawyer Richard Painter has characterized as an abuse of power and grounds for Comey's termination of employment.
Segall [ 4] asserts that a market system does not nurture the service ethic that should characterize the workforce and leads providers to adopt self-seeking behaviors instead of working in the interests of the patient or the community.
