"ethical notions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to ideas or concepts related to ethics or moral principles. Example: The philosopher discussed various ethical notions, such as the concept of justice and the importance of empathy in moral decision-making.
There are few simpler ethical notions than this one, particularly as society directs more and more energy and resources toward the creation of intellectual property.
Rather than ask how our political institutions, scientific methods and ethical notions might be philosophically justified, he asked what philosophy might do for politics, science and ethics.
At the same time, various Peripatetics of the school of Aristotle, including Aristoxenus, collected Pythagorean legends and applied contemporary ethical notions to them.
According to this supposedly divinely sanctioned philosophical anthropology, African and African-descended children, women, and men were defined as constituting a category of being to which none of the normative moral and ethical notions and principles governing civilized life applied.
Opinions varied, of course, but that the debate was widespread and meaningful reveals the extent to which Neo-Confucian ethical notions such as gi had become integral, substantive factors in public discourse in early-modern Japan.
Since there is divine justice, ethical notions are not an idle wheel nor should they be, even on Abelard's understanding of human justice, since they are the means by which we determine which intentions to promote or discourage when we punish people as examples or in order to deter others.
Another ethical notion crucial to Confucian and Neo-Confucian ethics was that of gi, or justice.
What fuses these qualities, one finally realizes, is his dedication to an ethical notion of being an American.
The Analects situates humaneness at the center of its moral philosophy, emphasizing it as the most universal ethical notion.
This is not a naturalist definition, since 'suitability' is itself a 'unique and indefinable' ethical notion (FE 146; also 159).
A review of the literature suggests that the most relevant normative principles lie in distributional ethics, notions of justice, and decision-making on ethical questions.
