Monster Essays - Secular Ethics
Secular Ethics
1. Of members of the clergy: Living `in the world' and not in monastic seclusion, as distinguished from `regular' and `religious'.
2. Belonging to the world and its affairs as distinguished from the church and religion; civil, lay, temporal. Chiefly used as a negative term, with the meaning non-ecclesiastical, non-religious, or non-sacred.
Ethics-
The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerning duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; a....
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