"ethical relation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a relationship based on a shared set of ethical standards or principles. For example, "It is important to maintain strong ethical relations with our customers in order to ensure their satisfaction."
This is not an objection: let us not forget that Levinas does not seek to propose…moral rules, does not seek to determine a morality, but rather the essence of the ethical relation in general…in question, then, is an Ethics of Ethics [which]…can occasion neither a determined ethics nor determined laws without negating and forgetting itself" (p. 111; French, p. 164).
This is a primary form of justice which is an integral part of the ethical relation.
It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value.
Kristeva sees in the ethics of psychoanalysis, premised on self-division, being strange to oneself, the possibility of establishing an ethical relation to alterity, inviting it into our political bonds (and warding off the most virulent forms of abjection).
If the infinite superiority is in reference to power or being, it is not obviously to the point; if it is an expression of an ethical relation, the argument is circular.
In addition, researchers should be aware that the informed consent is a procedure needed to establish a respectful and ethical relation between doctors and patients.
The book can be overly didactic about the role myth plays in all human societies, but the taut prose propels the story and describes the process by which people "make a future by entering into ethical relations with the past".
In so doing, we illustrate complex and contradictory spatial, emotional and ethical relations between humans and non-humans.
Ethical relations between groups did not and could not have emerged spontaneously in early human societies, as Darwin knew.
But such an aspiration (whose infinitude would render it un-dischargeable and ultimately unfulfillable) would suggest that, in making ethical arguments, it is the inherent quality of ethical relations themselves that count.
It can be characterised by commonly shared norms and values, the development of ethical relations which are not secured by contract or other regulatory forms, or the acknowledgment of risk in allowing oneself to be open to disappointment and regret [ 12, 21].
