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Definition of Ethicism
1. Noun. A doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important. "His ethicism often led him to moralize"
Derivative terms: Ethicist
Definition of Ethicism
1. Noun. The application of ethics. ¹
2. Noun. The use of ethics to create competitive advantage in business. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ethicism
1. the tendency to moralize [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ethicism
Literary usage of Ethicism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colloquia Peripatetica: Deep-sea Soundings : Being Notes of Conversations by William Angus Knight (1879)
"... all the course of Providence goes to show that the God of Providence is the
same as the severe Jehovah of the Hebrews. . . . [ethicism : MR. MAURICE. ..."
2. The Prophecies of Jesus Christ Relating to His Death, Resurrection, and by Paul Schwartzkopff (1897)
"Individualism, subjectivism, spiritualism, ethicism, and universalism are ...
ethicism, as being the most direct expression of the intercourse with God ..."
3. The Contemporary Review Great B (1898)
"... and many others a tendency to what Professor Seth in his recent volume of
essays describes as " humanism " in opposition to " naturalism," or "ethicism" ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The influence of Schleiermacher must be taken as a wholesome reaction from the
sterile rationalism and hard ethicism of the eighteenth century. ef, ..."
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