Greek semantic domain

Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Domain source subdomain 088 overlaps in certain respects with Domain source subdomain 041. The basic reason for such overlapping of semantic elements is that all moral and ethical qualities are in one way or another related to the manner in which people conduct themselves. In Domain source subdomain 088, however, the focus is upon the moral and ethical qualities of states and behavior. In Domain source subdomain 041 the focus is upon behavior which is either ethically neutral or does not imply ethical aspects. There is also a degree to which Domain source subdomain 088 overlaps with Domains source subdomain 036–source subdomain 040, since moral and ethical elements almost inevitably involve certain interpersonal relations. Domain source subdomain 088 is unusually large, primarily because moral and ethical qualities and their consequent behavior figure so largely in the content of the NT. In most domains it seems best to treat positive and negative features in as close a proximity as possible. In this domain, however, it has seemed better in general to treat the positive qualities first and then the set of corresponding negative qualities, though there are a number of exceptions, primarily because of the related lexical bases.

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Advanced domain details
Domain ID
SDBC-DOMAIN-UBS-GRK-088
Source code
088
Level
1
Scheme
UBS Greek Lexical Domains

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