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  2. Outline of ethics - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ethics.. Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. [1]

  3. Ethics - Wikipedia

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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, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act.

  4. Principlism - Wikipedia

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    Principlism is an applied ethics approach to the examination of moral dilemmas centering the application of certain ethical principles. This approach to ethical decision-making has been prevalently adopted in various professional fields, largely because it sidesteps complex debates in moral philosophy at the theoretical level.

  5. History of ethics - Wikipedia

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    Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns matters of value, and thus comprises the branch of philosophy called axiology.

  6. The Methods of Ethics - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer has said that the Methods "is simply the best book on ethics ever written." [3] The main aim of the book is to provide a systematic account of the principles of commonsense morality. The three general methods of making ethical choices commonly used in ordinary morality are intuitionism ...

  7. Category:Ethical principles - Wikipedia

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    Topics about Ethical principles in general should be placed in relevant topic categories. This category is for ethical principles or norms such as the categorical imperative , rules that can be applied to determine the ethical course of action.

  8. Principia Ethica - Wikipedia

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    Moore questions a fundamental pillar of ethics, specifically what the definition of "good" is. He concludes that "good" is indefinable because any attempts to do so commit the naturalistic fallacy. Principia Ethica was influential, with Moore's arguments being considered ground-breaking advances in the field of moral philosophy.

  9. Ethical code - Wikipedia

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    A code of practice is adopted by a profession (or by a governmental or non-governmental organization) to regulate that profession. A code of practice may be styled as a code of professional responsibility, which will discuss difficult issues and difficult decisions that will often need to be made, and then provide a clear account of what behavior is considered "ethical" or "correct" or "right ...