The followingoutline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ethics.
Ethics (also known asmoral philosophy) is the branch ofphilosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrongconduct.[1] The field of ethics, along withaesthetics, concern matters ofvalue, and thus comprise the branch ofphilosophy calledaxiology.[2]
Applied ethics – using philosophical methods, attempts to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.
Economics and business
Business ethics – concerns questions such as the limits on managers in the pursuit of profit, or the duty of 'whistleblowers' to the general public as opposed to their employers.
Bioethics – concerned with identifying the correct approach to matters such as euthanasia, or the allocation of scarce health resources, or the use of human embryos in research.
Bridge ethics – codes of ethics applied during play of the card game known as contract bridge.
Environmental ethics – concerned with issues such as the duties of humans towards landscapes and species.
Animal rights (also known asanimal liberation) – the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings.
Neuroethics – ethics in neuroscience, but also the neuroscience of ethics
Situated ethics – a view of applied ethics in which abstract standards from a culture or theory are considered to be far less important than the ongoing processes in which one is personally and physically involved
Normative ethics – concerns what people should believe to be right and wrong.
Consequentialism – moral theories that hold that the consequences of one's conduct are the true basis for any judgement about the morality of that conduct. Thus, a morally right act (or omission) is one that will produce a good outcome (the end justifies the means).
Ethical altruism – an ethical doctrine that holds that individuals have a moral obligation to help, serve, or benefit others, if necessary at the sacrifice of self-interest
Ethical egoism – the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest
Deontological ethics – approach that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to a rule or rules.
Moral absolutism – view that certain actions are absolutely right or wrong, regardless of their circumstances such as their consequences or the intentions behind them. Thus stealing, for instance, might be considered to be always immoral, even if done to promote some other good (e.g., stealing food to feed a starving family), and even if it does in the end promote such a good.
Virtue ethics – describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior.
Aristotelian ethics – the beginning of ethics as a subject, in the form of a systematic study of how individuals should best live. Aristotle believed one's goal should be living well and "eudaimonia", a Greek word often translated as "well-being" or "happiness". This could be achieved by the acquisition of a virtuous character, or in other words having well-chosen excellent habits.
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