Ethics

By Crisp, Roger

What is ethics? First, the systems of value and custom instantiated in the lives of particular groups of human beings are described as the ethics of these groups. ...

Ethics

What is ethics? First, the systems of value and custom instantiated in the lives of particular groups of human beings are described as the ethics of these groups. ...

Business ethics

By Sorell, Tom

Business ethics is the application of theories of right and wrong to activity within and between commercial enterprises, and between commercial enterprises and their broader environment. It is ...

Business ethics

Business ethics is the application of ethical theories to activity within and between commercial enterprises, and between commercial enterprises and their broader environment. It is a wide range ...

Nursing ethics

By Hunt, Geoffrey

Nursing ethics may be defined simply in relation to what nurses do that doctors and others do not characteristically do; or in relation to the nursing perspective on ...

Care, ethics of

see Feminist ethics.

Ethical naturalism

see Naturalism in ethics.

Formalism in ethics

see Universalism in ethics.

Green ethics

see Environmental ethics.

Lesbian ethics

see Feminist ethics.

Muslim ethics

see Ethics in Islamic philosophy.

Practical ethics

see Applied ethics. Agricultural ethics. Animals and ethics. Bioethics. Business ethics. Civil disobedience. Development ethics. Engineering and ethics. Environmental ethics. Family, ethics and the. Genetics and ethics. Information technology and ethics. Journalism, ethics of. Life and death. Market, ethics of the. Medical ethics. Nursing ethics. Population and ethics. Pornography. Professional ethics. Reproduction and ethics. Responsibilities of scientists and intellectuals. Sport and ethics.

Status and ethics

see Moral relativism.

Analytic ethics

By Railton, Peter

Moral philosophy has traditionally been divided into normative ethics and meta-ethics. Normative ethics concerns judgments about what is good and how we should act. Meta-ethics, with which ’analytic ...

Animals and ethics

By Rachels, James

Does morality require that we respect the lives and interests of nonhuman animals? The traditional doctrine was that animals were made for human use, and so we may ...

Animals and ethics

By DeGrazia, David

Animal ethics is the study of ethical issues pertaining to human beings’ use of (nonhuman) animals. Its recently earned status as a significant area of academic inquiry (see, ...

Applied ethics

By Almond, Brenda

Applied ethics is marked out from ethics in general by its special focus on issues of practical concern. It therefore includes medical ethics, environmental ethics, and evaluation of ...

Applied ethics

Applied ethics is marked out from ethics in general by its special focus on issues of practical concern. It is concerned with ethical issues in various fields of ...

Development ethics

By Crocker, David A.

Development ethics is ethical reflection on the ends and means of socioeconomic change in poor countries and regions. It has several sources: criticism of colonialism and post-Second World ...

Engineering and ethics

By Davis, Michael

Engineering ethics is that form of applied or professional ethics concerned with the conduct of engineers. Though engineers do many different things, they share a common history, which ...

Engineering and ethics

By Davis, Michael

Engineering ethics is a form of applied or professional ethics concerned with the conduct of engineers strictly speaking. ‘Engineer’ is has a number of uses not relevant here, ...

Ethics of ignorance

By Wieland, Jan Willem

Moral ignorance is ignorance about the permissibility of one’s conduct. It involves both conceptual and normative issues. We could ask what it is, and we could ask when ...

Ethics of policing

By Nathan, Christopher

Policing is, historically, relatively new. Accordingly, the study of the proper norms governing the police is also a novel endeavour, especially in comparison with the study of the ...

Examples in ethics

By Louden, Robert B.

Philosophers often employ examples to illustrate how their favoured principles are to be applied to concrete cases, and sometimes even to show that principles are of no help ...

Genetics and ethics

By Chadwick, Ruth

The identification of human genes poses problems about the use of resources, and about ownership and use of genetic information, and could lead to overemphasis of the importance ...