Outline of ethics

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.
  • Development ethics (economic development)
  • Ethics in management
  • Ethics in pharmaceutical sales
  • Lifeboat ethics (economic metaphor)
• 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.
  • Ethics of cloning
  • Veterinary ethics
  • Neuroethics – ethics in neuroscience, but also the neuroscience of ethics
  • Utilitarian bioethics
• Organizational ethics – ethics among organizations.
• Professional ethics
  • Accounting ethics – study of moral values and judgments as they apply to accountancy.
  • Archaeological ethics
  • Computer ethics – deals with how computing professionals should make decisions regarding professional and social conduct.[3]
    • Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
  • Engineering ethics
  • Journalism ethics and standards
  • Research ethics
    • Internet research ethics
  • Legal ethics
  • Marketing ethics
  • Media ethics
  • Medical ethics (aka clinical ethics)
    • Evidence-based medical ethics
    • Military medical ethics
  • Nursing ethics
• Ethics of technology
  • Technoethics – the ethics of technology in society
  • Ethics of terraforming
  • Cyberethics
  • Ethics of artificial intelligence
    • Machine ethics – the moral behavior of artificial moral agents
    • Roboethics – the moral behavior of humans as they design, construct, use and treat artificially intelligent beings
  • Internet ethics
  • Information ethics
• Social ethics – ethics among nations and as one global unit.
  • Population ethics
  • Sexual ethics
• 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 as animal 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.
  • Climate ethics – concerned with the ethical dimensions of climate change, and concepts such as climate justice.
  • Environmental virtue ethics
  • Trail ethics
• Ethics of eating meat
• Public sector ethics
  • Government ethics
  • Ethics in public administration
  • International ethics – in international relations
  • Regulatory ethics

• Metaethics or moral epistemology – concerns the nature of moral statements, that is, it studies what ethical terms and theories actually refer to.
• Moral syncretism – the attempt to reconcile disparate or contradictory moral beliefs, often while melding the ethical

practices of various schools of thought.

• Moral relativism and relativism
• Fallibilism – the philosophical principle that human beings could be wrong about their beliefs, expectations, or their understanding of the world
• Moral skepticism – a class of metaethical theories all members of which entail that no one has any moral knowledge
• Particularism
• Rationalism
• Conventionalism
• Axiology
• Formal ethics
• Rationality
• Discourse ethics – discovering ethical values through argument
• Ethics of justice
• Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development
• Evolutionary ethics
• 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
• Philosophical realism
• Naturalism

Cognitivism

• Moral realism
  • Ethical naturalism
  • Ethical non-naturalism
• Moral anti-realism
  • Ethical subjectivism
  • Moral nihilism – the metaethical view that nothing is intrinsically moral or immoral (see also nihilism)

Non-cognitivism

• Emotivism
• Universal prescriptivism
• Quasi-realism

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).
  • Utilitarianism
  • Negative utilitarianism
  • Ethical hedonism
  • 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.
  • Graded absolutism
  • Kantian ethics
• Pragmatic ethics
• 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.
    • Nicomachean Ethics – most popular ethics treatise by Aristotle
    • Eudemian Ethics
    • Magna Moralia
• Eudaimonism – system of ethics that measures happiness in relation to morality.
• Ethics of care – a normative ethical theory
• Living Ethics
• Religious ethics
  • Divine command theory – claims that ethical sentences express the attitudes of God. Thus, the sentence "charity is good" means "God commands charity".
  • Ethics in the Bible
  • Ayyavazhi ethics
  • Buddhist ethics
    • Buddhist ethics (discipline)
  • Christian ethics
    • Situational ethics, a Christian ethical theory
  • Islamic ethics
    • Islamic bioethics
  • Jain ethics
  • Jewish ethics
    • Jewish business ethics
    • Jewish medical ethics
  • Religious values
  • Playing God (ethics)
  • Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics
  • Ethics and religious culture – a course taught in all elementary and high schools in Quebec
  • Religious views on business ethics
  • Scientology ethics and justice
  • Ethics of circumcision
• Secular ethics
• Biocentrism – an ethical point of view which extends inherent value to non-human species,[1] ecosystems, and processes in nature
• Rights ethics (thought in the American and French Revolutions)
• Feminist ethics

• Descriptive ethics
• Moral psychology

• Value theory
• Philosophy of economics
• Political philosophy
• Philosophy of law
• Deontic logic
• Religious ethics
• Action theory
• Practical reasoning
• Morality
• Moral character
• Visual ethics
• Ethics of belief

• Autonomy
• Egalitarianism
• Golden Rule
• Categorical imperative
  • Universalisability
  • Kingdom of Ends
• Harm principle
• Non-aggression principle
• Liberty
  • Positive liberty
  • Negative liberty

• Consent
• Human rights
• Just War
• Justice
• Natural and legal rights
• Political freedom
• Rights
• Rule according to higher law

• Good and evil
  • Good
  • Evil
• Commensurability (ethics)
• Ideal (ethics)
• Moral agency
• Moral patienthood
• Moral responsibility
• Norm (philosophy)
• Principle
• Self-interest
• Sin
• Taboo
• Universal code (ethics)
• Value (ethics)
  • Extrinsic value or instrumental value
  • Intrinsic value (animal ethics)
  • Intrinsic value (ethics)
• Vice
• Virtue

• Conscience
• Free will
• Guilt (emotion)
• Happiness
• Love
• Moral emotions
• Shame
• Suffering

• Dual loyalty (ethics)
• Evasion (ethics)
• Trust (social sciences)

• Nicomachean Ethics – most popular ethics treatise by Aristotle
• Eudemian Ethics
• Magna Moralia
• Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
• Encyclopedia of Ethics
• Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy
• Ethics (book)
• Life sciences, ethics and democracy
• How to Observe Morals and Manners
• The Ethics of Ambiguity
• The Ethics of Liberty
• The Methods of Ethics
• Principia Ethica
• The Right and the Good
• Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice
• Practical Ethics

• American Journal of Bioethics
• Bioethics
• Business Ethics Quarterly
• Business and Professional Ethics Journal
• Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
• Environmental Ethics
• Ethics & International Affairs
• Ethics (journal)
• Ethics and Language
• Experiments in Ethics
• IRB: Ethics & Human Research
• Journal of Business Ethics
• Journal of Business Ethics Education
• Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
• Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy
• Journal of Information Ethics
• Journal of Medical Ethics
• Legal Trends in Bioethics
• Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics
• Neuroethics
• Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
• Professional Ethics
• Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
• Teaching Ethics
• The Economics and Ethics of Private Property
• The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics
• The Journal of Ethics