Outline of ethics
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ethics:
Ethics – major branch of philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life. It is significantly broader than the common conception of analyzing right and wrong. A central aspect of ethics is "the good life", the life worth living or life that is simply satisfying, which is held by many philosophers to be more important than moral conduct.
Ethics can be described as:
The following examples of questions that might be considered in each field illustrate the differences between the fields:
Applied ethics – using philosophical methods, attempts to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of human life.
practices of various schools of thought.
Normative ethics – concerns what people should believe to be right and wrong.
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