For Dewey, this negative view of freedom is at the root of the wider social, ethical and political defects of this form of individualism ('Religion and Morality in a Free Society', LW15, 181).
Their ethical theory has important defects, but one of its major strengths is that these could probably be remedied without abandoning the basic structure of the theory.
But Kierkegaard's ethical position suffers from a defect: Kierkegaard attempts to reconcile ordinary life with a form that is appropriate for genuine, "absolute" life (that is, he tries to live tragic life as ordinary life).
Yet the major defects of Mohist ethical thought lie precisely in how these ideas are handled.
In that sense, hypocrisy is the ethical equivalent of literary irony--a defect in me everybody else sees but about which I remain blithely unsuspecting.
[C11.] Consultant Warned Guidant About Device, Papers Show A consultant to the Guidant Corporation told the company last year that he believed it had a clear ethical obligation to tell physicians about heart device defects, and urged the company to overhaul its practices, newly released court records show.
Aristotle defines ethical virtue as lying in a mean between excess and defect, and the mean is determined by the person of practical wisdom (actually the male, since Aristotle is sexist on this point).
When Joanna rescues Dr. Caroll, she learns that he is an AI who decided to defect from dataDyne after realising that the company betrayed ethical and moral standards.
The political life has a major defect, despite the fact that it consists in fully exercising the ethical virtues, because it is a life devoid of philosophical understanding and activity.
Anonymous, Arkansas You have an ethical (and in some jurisdictions, a legal) obligation to inform prospective buyers about defects or dangers in a house you're selling.
