ethicist
[eth-uh-sist]
- a person who specializes in or writes on ethics or who is devoted to ethical principles.
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Also e·thi·cian [e-thish-uh n] /ɛˈθɪʃ ən/.
Origin of ethicist
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Examples from the Web for ethicist
Contemporary Examples
If his Ethicist gig ever winds up feeling too constricting, he can always launch a column called The Sophist.
Historical Examples
With the purest intention he is much less of an ethicist than Kant.
Julia Ward HoweLaura E. Richards
The "ethicist's fallacy" is the source of all absolutism in theory, and all intolerance in practice.
The Philosophy of SpinozaBaruch de Spinoza
And it applies also to what one may, with a great deal of benefit, dub the "ethicist's fallacy."
The Philosophy of SpinozaBaruch de Spinoza