ethicist

[ eth-uh-sist ]

/ ˈɛθ ə sɪst /

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a person who specializes in or writes on ethics or who is devoted to ethical principles.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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[e-thish-uhn]. /ɛˈθɪʃ ən/.

First recorded in 1890–95; ethic + -ist

As neurotechnology marches ahead, scientists, ethicists, companies and governments are looking for answers on how, or even whether, to regulate brain technology.
Can privacy coexist with technology that reads and changes brain activity?|Laura Sanders|February 11, 2021|Science News
For the most strategic features, having an “empathy committee,” composed not just of engineering and business people, but also of sociologists, ethicists, and philosophers, would help.
How to fix Silicon Valley|jakemeth|October 4, 2020|Fortune
If his Ethicist gig ever winds up feeling too constricting, he can always launch a column called The Sophist.
Forget the Wife Beating—Are You Ready for Some Football?|Steve Almond|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The "ethicist's fallacy" is the source of all absolutism in theory, and all intolerance in practice.
The Philosophy of Spinoza|Baruch de Spinoza

And it applies also to what one may, with a great deal of benefit, dub the "ethicist's fallacy."
The Philosophy of Spinoza|Baruch de Spinoza
With the purest intention he is much less of an ethicist than Kant.
Julia Ward Howe|Laura E. Richards