biotics

See also: biòtics

English

Noun

biotics pl (plural only)

1. (ethics) The promotion of enjoyment and the reduction of suffering.
   • 1960, Roland Houde, Joseph Patrick Michael Mullally, Philosophy of Knowledge: Selected Readings, page 16:

     That part of biotics which is a defense against suffering, and accordingly also ethics later on, has four divisions, in correspondence with those four sources of suffering: subhuman nature, man's own nature, his living together with fellow-men, and superhuman powers.

   • 1983, William M. Johnston, The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200:

     More broadly, communal biotics, or ethics, elevates diminution of suffering into a common goal, while culture is that aspect of communal biotics in which people share enjoyment.

   • 2012, Felix M. Cleve, The Giants of Pre-Sophistic Greek Philosophy, page xxxvi:

     Such art of living, or biotics, practiced first instinctively and changing later into conscious maxims, is not yet ethics (just as that other part of biotics, with the positive aim of enjoyment, is not yet culture).

2. plural of biotic

Derived terms

• macrobiotics

 

Anagrams

• tibicos