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Ethics is the philosophical
study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates
normative questions about what people
ought to do or which behavior is
morally right.
Its main branches include;
- Normative ethics - aims to find general principles that govern how people should act.
- Applied ethics - examines concrete ethical problems in real-life situations, such as abortion, treatment of animals, and business practices.
- Metaethics - explores the underlying assumptions and concepts of ethics. It asks whether there are objective moral facts, how moral knowledge is possible, and how moral judgments motivate people.
Influential normative theories are;
- Consequentialism - the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.
- Deontology - an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action.
- Virtue ethics - treats virtue and character as the primary subjects of ethics, in contrast to other ethical systems that put consequences of voluntary acts, principles or rules of conduct, or obedience to divine authority in the primary role.
Ethics is closely connected to value theory, which studies the nature and types of value, like the contrast between intrinsic and instrumental value.
Moral psychology is a related empirical field and investigates psychological processes involved in morality, such as reasoning and the formation of character.
Descriptive ethics describes the dominant moral codes and beliefs in different societies and considers their historical dimension.
Contents
- Definition
- Normative ethics
- Metaethics
- Basic concepts
- Realism, relativism, and nihilism
- Cognitivism and non-cognitivism
- Moral knowledge
- Moral motivation
- Applied ethics
- Related fields
- History
- See also
- References
- External links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
Ethics (or Moral Philosophy) is concerned with questions of how people ought to act, and the search for a definition of right conduct (identified as the one causing the greatest good) and the good life (in the sense of a life worth living or a life that is satisfying or happy).
The word "ethics" is derived from the Greek "ethos" (meaning "custom" or "habit"). Ethics differs from morals and morality in that ethics denotes the theory of right action and the greater good, while morals indicate their practice. Ethics is not limited to specific acts and defined moral codes, but encompasses the whole of moral ideals and behaviors, a person's philosophy of life (or Weltanschauung).
It asks questions like "How should people act?" (Normative or Prescriptive Ethics), "What do people think is right?" (Descriptive Ethics), "How do we take moral knowledge and put it into practice?" (Applied Ethics), and "What does 'right' even mean?" (Meta-Ethics). See below for more discussion of these categories.
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Textbook - Ethics for A-Level
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Textbook - An Open Introduction to Ethics
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