Ethics Discipline

An Ethics Discipline is a philosophical discipline of ethical judgements and right action (by moral agents).

• AKA: Moral Philosophy.
• Context:
  • It can range from being an Abstract Moral Philosophy to a Personal Moral Philosophy.
  • It can range from being a Consequentialist Moral Philosophy to being a Deontological Moral Philosophy.
  • It can support a Moral Argument.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Epistemology.
  • Metaphysics.
  • Aesthetics.
• See: Normative Philosophy, Epistemology.

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References

2013

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
  • Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term comes from the Greek word ethos, which means "character". Ethics is a complement to Aesthetics in the philosophy field of Axiology. In philosophy, ethics studies the moral behavior in humans and how one should act. Ethics may be divided into four major areas of study:
    • Meta-ethics, about the theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions and how their truth values (if any) may be determined;
    • Normative ethics, about the practical means of determining a moral course of action;
    • Applied ethics, about how moral outcomes can be achieved in specific situations;
    • Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality;
  • Ethics seeks to resolve questions dealing with human morality — concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.

1974

• (Taylor, 1974) ⇒ Paul W. Taylor. (1974). “Principles of Ethics: An Introduction." Dickenson Publishing Company. ISBN:0822101424
  • QUOTE: Ethics may be defined as philosophical inquiry into the nature and grounds of morality. The term "morality" is here used as a general name for moral judgments, standards, and rules of conduct. These include not only the actual judgments, standards, and rules to be found in the moral codes of existing societies, but also what may be called ideal judgments, standards, and rules: those which can be justified on rational grounds. Indeed, one of the chief goals of ethics is to see if rational grounds can be given in support of any moral judgments, standards, and rules, and if so, to specify what those grounds are.

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