ethics

• Ethics


  Refers to what is good and the way to get it, and what is bad and how to avoid it. It refers to what ought to be done to achieve what is good and what ought not to be done to avoid what is evil.
• The general study of goodness and right action is the main task of ethics. It can help people to act in consideration of others and to consider their own moral values.
• Moral principles


  • Honesty
  • Fairness
  • Respect
  • Compassion
  • Keeping promises
  • Avoiding harm
  • Helping others
• Ethics


  The rules that a social system provides us with. These are the codes of how to act in a workplace, in a public place, in a church, or anywhere else where other people are present.
• Morals


  Our own principles. When we act according to morals, we do something because we personally are certain that this is the right thing to do.
• Different approaches to the study of ethics: Meta-ethics, Normative ethics, Applied ethics
• Meta-ethics


  The study of the nature of ethics itself (ethical concepts, theories and principles). It deals with what it means to claim that something is right or wrong.
• Normative ethics


  Laying certain rules about good and bad, and following them diligently.
• Normative ethics subfields


  • Virtue ethics
  • Deontology
  • Consequentialism
• Virtue ethics


  Focuses on the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. A virtue is a positive quality or disposition that guides and directs a person's actions towards goodness and moral excellence.
• Deontology ethics


  Focuses on rightness and wrongness of the action rather than consequences of those actions. Actions that align with these rules are ethical, while actions that don't are not.
• Consequentialist ethics


  Looks at the consequences of the action and suggests that if the consequences are what we have decided we want them to be, then that action, because it led to the desired consequences, is the right action.
• Applied ethics


  Actual applications of ethical or moral theories for the purpose of deciding which ethical or moral actions are appropriate in a given situations.
• Applied ethics fields


  • Business ethics
  • Biomedical and Environmental ethics
  • Social Ethics
• Casuistry


  A method used in moral theology that attempts to apply a set of general principles in specific cases of human conduct.