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    Ethics is a branch of philosophy that involves examining concepts of right and wrong conduct. It seeks to provide a rational approach to determining moral standards, obligations, and virtues. There are three major areas of ethics: meta-ethics concerning the meaning of moral language; normative ethics regarding determining the morally correct action; and applied ethics dealing with specific moral issues and domains of action. Ethics, or moral philosophy, uses reason to explore questions of how humans should act and what constitutes an ideal character.

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    Ethics is a branch of philosophy that involves examining concepts of right and wrong conduct. It seeks to provide a rational approach to determining moral standards, obligations, and virtues. There are three major areas of ethics: meta-ethics concerning the meaning of moral language; normative ethics regarding determining the morally correct action; and applied ethics dealing with specific moral issues and domains of action. Ethics, or moral philosophy, uses reason to explore questions of how humans should act and what constitutes an ideal character.

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    ETHICS

    Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and


    recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The field of ethics, along with aesthetics,
    concerns matters of value, and thus comprises the branch of philosophy called axiology.
    Ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality by defining concepts such as good and evil,
    right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime. As a field of intellectual inquiry,
    moral philosophy also is related to the fields of moral psychology, descriptive ethics, and value
    theory.
    Three major areas of study within ethics recognized today are:[1]

    1. Meta-ethics, concerning the theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions,


    and how their truth values (if any) can be determined
    2. Normative ethics, concerning the practical means of determining a moral course of
    action
    3. Applied ethics, concerning what a person is obligated (or permitted) to do in a specific
    situation or a particular domain of action[1]

    The English word "ethics" is derived from the Ancient Greek word ēthikós (ἠθικός), meaning


    "relating to one's character", which itself comes from the root word êthos (ἦθος) meaning
    "character, moral nature". This word was transferred into Latin as ethica and then into French
    as éthique, from which it was transferred into English.
    Rushworth Kidder states that "standard definitions of ethics have typically included such
    phrases as 'the science of the ideal human character' or 'the science of moral duty'". Richard
    William Paul and Linda Elder define ethics as "a set of concepts and principles that guide us in
    determining what behavior helps or harms sentient creatures". The Cambridge Dictionary of
    Philosophy states that the word "ethics" is "commonly used interchangeably with 'morality' ...
    and sometimes it is used more narrowly to mean the moral principles of a particular tradition,
    group or individual." Paul and Elder state that most people confuse ethics with behaving in
    accordance with social conventions, religious beliefs and the law and don't treat ethics as a
    stand-alone concept.
    The word ethics in English refers to several things. It can refer to philosophical ethics or moral
    philosophy—a project that attempts to use reason to answer various kinds of ethical questions.
    As the English philosopher Bernard Williams writes, attempting to explain moral philosophy:
    "What makes an inquiry a philosophical one is reflective generality and a style of argument that
    claims to be rationally persuasive." Williams describes the content of this area of inquiry as
    addressing the very broad question, "how one should live". Ethics can also refer to a common
    human ability to think about ethical problems that is not particular to philosophy.
    As bioethicist Larry Churchill has written: "Ethics, understood as the capacity to think critically
    about moral values and direct our actions in terms of such values, is a generic human
    capacity." Ethics can also be used to describe a particular person's own idiosyncratic principles
    or habits. For example: "Joe has strange ethics."

    REFERENCE:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

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