Above all, perhaps, they see it as a way to link themselves and their art to a sense of common purpose and to an ethical ideal.

He judged things and people almost exclusively by their direct success, not by a social or ethical ideal.

A person's ethical ideal is diminished when she either chooses or is forced to act in a way that rejects her internal call to care.

The problem here is not just possessiveness and failure to live up to the high ethical ideals proclaimed by a religion.

Objectivism regards art as an effective way to communicate a moral or ethical ideal.

"Democracy is not only about the rules that are written, it is about upholding ethical ideals."

An ethical ideal of sexual self-control among enlisted men was vital to preserving peace once hostilities ceased.

God was simply an idea formed by the human mind, a symbol of the ethical ideal.

Do your ethical ideals extend from the catwalk to your supply chain?

Interestingly, images like this one, which focus on the natural world with such intense investigative curiosity, were also vehicles for ethical and spiritual ideals.