"ethical reflection" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the process of thinking deeply and critically about moral and ethical issues. Example: "Before making a decision, it is important to engage in ethical reflection and consider the potential consequences of our actions on others."
Information ethics is concerned with the ethical reflection of the treatment of information and social interaction in computer systems.
Joe Watkins took seriously the difference between ethical reflection and a personalized ethics investigation (see, e.g., in AAA 2002a, vol. 2 sec. 6.2.4).
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.
Students and researchers need and want research ethics training, but more than that, they want the space for ethical reflection.
Religious communities then become places that do not dictate morality and ethics to the world -- but instead become centers of reflection in which ethical reflection can be refined and renewed through practice, community, history and process-tradition.
The heat of battle is neither the time nor the place for cool ethical reflection.
What science tells us about the naturalness of certain sexual behaviours informs ethical reflection, but does not determine its conclusions.
Regardless of their complexity, mechanised combatants will never be able to feel the moral implications of killing and the ethical reflection it sparks.
The family circumstances that led to the discovery this year of the photograph have also presented the chancellor with cause for ethical reflection.
Their "transformed choir did not much resemble / The disorderly choir of ordinary things," Milosz complains in "A Treatise on Poetry," his 1957 sequence, which combines personal memoir with ethical reflection to create an ars poetica.
And yet Christianity also contains a broad strand of what she calls Christian realism, which has led to the concept of "just war" -- the notion of a war conducted in a spirit of moral and ethical reflection, with due attention to legality, proportionality and practical consequences.
