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Preferred term
theories of ethics
Definition
- Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with morality. Ethicists are concerned with a wide range of topics, such as human nature; the meaning of life; the nature of value; how judgments are made; how judgments can be improved; how moral attitudes arise and change; and the workings of morally significant mental states such as love, hate, greed, envy, indifference, pity, desire, aversion, pleasure, and pain. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Ethics, Theories of]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Adam Ferguson
- Adam Smith
- agency theory
- agrarianism
- Alasdair Macintyre
- altruism
- amorality
- anarchism
- animal rights
- anthropocentrism
- authenticity
- autonomy
- Ayn Rand
- benevolence and beneficence
- Bernard Mandeville
- biocentrism
- bioethics
- capabilities approach
- capabilities approach to distributive justice
- casuistry
- coercion
- cognitive moral development
- cognitivism and ethics
- collusion
- commensurability
- commonsense morality
- commutative theory of justice
- compensatory justice
- conflicts of interest
- conscience
- consent (economics)
- consequentialist ethical systems
- cultural imperialism
- darwinism and ethics
- David Hume
- decision-making models
- deontological ethical systems
- descriptive ethics
- deserts
- discounting the future
- distributive justice
- divine command theory
- doctrine of double effect
- due care theory
- duty of charity
- egalitarianism
- egoism
- entitlements
- environmental ethics
- environmentalism
- envy-free theory
- equal opportunity
- equal sacrifice theory
- ethical absolutism
- ethical decision making
- ethical dilemmas
- ethical hedonism
- ethical imperialism
- ethical naturalism
- ethical nihilism
- ethical role of the manager
- ethics of care
- ethics of dialogue
- existentialism
- extortion
- fact-value distinction
- feminist ethics
- feminist theory
- fidelity (ethics)
- freedom and liberty
- Friedrich A. Hayek
- gender inequality and discrimination
- genetics and ethics
- golden rule
- goodwill
- Hannah Arendt
- Henry George
- Henry Sidgwick
- Herbert Spencer
- honesty
- human nature
- human rights
- ideal observer theory
- Immanuel Kant
- instrumental value
- integrative social contract theory
- integrity
- intergenerational equity
- interpersonal comparison of utility
- intrinsic value
- intuitionism
- is-ought problem
- John Locke
- John Rawls
- John Stuart Mill
- Kantian ethics
- land ethic
- legal rights
- lesbian ethics
- loyalty
- majoritarianism
- meritocracy
- metaethics
- methodological individualism
- Milton Friedman
- moral agency
- moral distress
- moral education
- moral imagination
- moral luck
- moral point of view
- moral principle
- moral realism
- moral reasoning
- moral relativism
- moral rules
- moral sentimentalism
- moral standing
- motives and self-interest
- natural business ethics
- naturalistic fallacy
- natural law ethical theory
- negligence
- negotiation and bargaining
- neo-kantian ethics
- nihilism
- noncognitivism
- normative/descriptive distinction
- normative ethics
- normative theory versus positive theory
- nozick's theory of justice
- objectivism
- other-regardingness
- ought implies can
- personal values
- primary goods
- principle of universalizability
- principle of utility
- procedural justice: philosophical perspectives
- procedural justice: social science perspectives
- property and property rights
- prudence
- psychological hedonism
- public and private morality
- rationality
- rationality and ethics
- Rawls's theory of justice
- reciprocal altruism
- reciprocity (ethics)
- redistribution of wealth
- reductionism
- retributive justice
- Richard Henry Tawney
- self-consciousness
- self-deception
- self-interest (economics)
- self-ownership
- self-realization
- self-regardingness
- self-respect
- side-constraints
- situation ethics
- slippery slope argument
- social contract theory
- statism
- supererogation
- theories of justice
- theories of rights
- Thomas Hobbes
- Thorstein Veblen
- truth telling
- utilitarianism
- utility (economics)
- vice
- Vilfredo Pareto
- virtue and leadership
- virtue ethics
- voluntarism
- well-being
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/theories_of_ethics
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