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Ethics

• Bioethics

  Bioethics, branch of applied ethics that studies the philosophical, social, and legal issues arising in medicine and the life sciences. It is chiefly concerned with human life and well-being, thought it sometimes also treats ethical questions relating to the nonhuman biological environment.
• Ethical Egoism

  Ethical egoism asserts that moral decision making should be guided entirely by self-interest.
• Ethics

  Ethics, also called moral philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles.
• Metaethics

  Metaethics, the sub-discipline of ethics concerned with the nature of ethical theories and moral jugdments.
• Normative Ethics

  Normative ethics, the part of moral philosophy, or ethics concerned with criteria of what is morally right and wrong. It includes the formulation of moral rules that have direct implications for what human actions, institutions and ways of life should be like.
• Evolutionary Ethics

  In evolutionary ethics, as in evolutionary epistemology, there are two major undertakings. The first concerns normative ethics, which investigates what actions are morally right or morally wrong; the second concerns metaethics, or theoretical ethics, which considered the nature, scope, and origins of moral concepts and theories.
• Deontological Ethics

  Deontological ethics are ethical theories that place special emphasis on the relationship between duty and the morality of human actions.
• Ethical Naturalism

  Ethical naturalism is the view that moral terms, concepts, or properties are ultimately definable in terms of facts about the natural world, including facts about human beings, human nature, and human societies.
• Ethics of Care

  Ethics of care or care ethics is a feminist philosophical perspective that uses a relational and context-bound approach toward morality and decision making.