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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals; Enron Code of Ethics; Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary; Ethical Intuitionism (book) Ethical Relativity; Ethics (Moore book) Ethics (Abelard) Ethics (Bonhoeffer book) Ethics (Watsuji book) Ethics and Language; The Ethics of Ambiguity; The Ethics of Diet; The Ethics of Immigration; The Ethics ...
Peter Railton, "Moral Realism", 1986; Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, 1986; Paul W. Taylor, Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics, 1986; Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World, 1988; Shelly Kagan, The Limits of Morality, 1989
The word "ethics" is "commonly used interchangeably with 'morality' ... and sometimes it is used more narrowly to mean the moral principles of a particular tradition, group, or individual." [ 8 ] Likewise, certain types of ethical theories, especially deontological ethics , sometimes distinguish between ethics and morality.
The Elements of Moral Philosophy is a 1986 ethics textbook by the philosophers James Rachels and Stuart Rachels. [1] It explains a number of moral theories and topics, including cultural relativism, subjectivism, divine command theory, ethical egoism, social contract theory, utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, and deontology. The book uses real ...
Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. [1] The field of ethics, along with aesthetics , concern matters of value , and thus comprise the branch of philosophy called axiology .
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465020485. Frans de Waal (2014). The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393347791. Virginia Morell (2013). Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures. Crown Publishers.
Ethics is, in general terms, the study of right and wrong. It can look descriptively at moral behaviour and judgements; it can give practical advice (normative ethics), or it can analyse and theorise about the nature of morality and ethics. [1] Contemporary study of ethics has many links with other disciplines in philosophy itself and other ...
According to Aristotle, how to lead a good life is one of the central questions of ethics. [1]Ethics, also called moral philosophy, is the study of moral phenomena. It is one of the main branches of philosophy and investigates the nature of morality and the principles that govern the moral evaluation of conduct, character traits, and institutions.