ethical will
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ethical will
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Everplans, for example, has a worksheet to help people create an ethical will, a document that communicates their values, life lessons and most important experiences.
From Seattle Times • May 9, 2022
He penned a kind of ethical will — a powerful statement of his moral legacy.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2020
I can think of no better way to close this article than to recommend that you undertake the composition of an ethical will.
From Time Magazine Archive
And now more and more are opting for an ethical will, a detailed accounting of the values and beliefs they want to pass on and the cherished memories they don't want forgotten.
From Time Magazine Archive
And as already indicated, Religion, emerging, as it does, from social man, from mind ethical, will retain traces of the two foci in society: the individual subjectivity and the objective community.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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