ethical guidance
Principles for conduct
Ethical guidance is advice or direction on matters of right and wrong conduct.
It may come from religious teachings, philosophical frameworks, professional codes, or trusted advisors.
Organizations provide ethical guidance to employees facing moral dilemmas: The committee offers ethical guidance on research involving human subjects.
Parents give children ethical guidance through instruction and example.
- gray areaAmbiguous, ill-defined situation
- moral reasoningEvaluating right and wrong
- do the right thingBehave with moral integrity
- deontologyMorality based on obligations
- consequentialismEthics judging by results
value system · code of conduct · morality · moral instruction · conscience · moral compass · character education · community standards · bioethics · pastoral care · mentorship · regulatory bodies · human rights organizations · discernment · whistleblowing · right · religious institutions · utilitarianism
- wisdomwisdom, sagacity, sapience, discernment, insight
- prison programsGED classes, GED programs, vocational training, life skills, drug treatment
- chaplainschaplains, military chaplain, army chaplain, chaplaincy, combat chaplain
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
- Catholic youthyouth ministry, youth group, youth groups, youth minister, youth leaders
- Hadithhadith, hadiths, Muslim, matn, canonical works
ethical guidancelegal mandate
Law-required duty
coercion · enforcement · dictate · brute force · judicial decree
ethical guidanceanomie
Breakdown of shared standards
moral ambiguity · moral relativism · nihilism · directionlessness