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psychoethics

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Etymology

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From psycho- +‎ ethics.

Noun

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psychoethics (uncountable)

  1. A branch of ethics that takes into account psychological considerations or perspectives.
    • 1981, Paul Heelas, ‎Andrew Lock, Indigenous Psychologies: The Anthropology of the Self, page 91:
      In contrast to the psychoethics of mediaeval Catholicism is the system of psychological and theological beliefs at the heart of Islam.
    • 1994, Mary Lou Rubert, Psychoethics, America's Perestroika, page 5:
      Psychoethics is also seen as a guide in identifying problems with disciplines from the eagle's point of a metaperspective and in the interest of helping in decision making .
    • 2009, Edward Joseph Alam, Christianity, Culture, and the Contemporary World, Challenges and New Paradigms, page 157:
      A more explicit articulation of Rielo's educational model involves an understanding of psychoethics that examines both the dysgenesic states that inhibit or perturb the capacity of human persons to act in accordance to the agency of the divine constitutive presence and the ontological remedy or ecstatic energy that can modify and correct the stated resistance within the dynamics of education in ecstasy.