Integrity vs. Ethics — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Integrity and Ethics
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Definitions
Integrity
Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.
Ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns matters of value; these fields comprise the branch of philosophy called axiology.Ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality by defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.
Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code
A leader of great integrity.
Ethics
Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity
A code of ethics
Medical ethics also enter into the question
Integrity
The state of being unimpaired; soundness
The building's integrity remained intact following the mild earthquake.
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Ethics
The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles
Neither metaphysics nor ethics is the home of religion
Integrity
The quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
Replaced a lost book to restore the integrity of his collection.
Ethics
A set of principles of right conduct.
Integrity
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
Ethics
A theory or a system of moral values
"An ethic of service is at war with a craving for gain" (Gregg Easterbrook).
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Integrity
The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
Ethics
Ethics (used with a sing. verb) The study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person; moral philosophy.
Integrity
The quality or condition of being complete; pure
Ethics
Ethics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession
Medical ethics.
Integrity
(cryptography) With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
Ethics
(philosophy) The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
Integrity
(aviation) The ability of systems to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
Ethics
Morality.
Integrity
Trustworthiness; keeping your word.
Ethics
The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
Integrity
The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.
Ethics
The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics.
The completeness and consistency of its morality is the peculiar praise of the ethics which the Bible has taught.
Integrity
Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; - used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.
The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature.
Their sober zeal, integrity, and worth.
Ethics
Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
Integrity
Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.
Language continued long in its purity and integrity.
Ethics
The philosophical study of moral values and rules
Integrity
An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality
Integrity
Moral soundness
