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normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics. Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people should act. Applied ethics examines

to 1816 as a synonym of dicastic or censorial ethics (i.e., ethics based on judgement). The more general sense of the word is retained in French, especially

ethical code generally implies documents at three levels: codes of business ethics, codes of conduct for employees, and codes of professional practice. Many

Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality. It contrasts with prescriptive or normative ethics, which

Discourse. Rhetoric. Mechanics of Poetry. Ethics. General. General Science of Good and Evil, of duties in general, of Virtue, of the necessity of being Virtuous

Ethics is, in general terms, the study of right and wrong. It can look descriptively at moral behaviour and judgements; it can give practical advice (normative

The Ethics in Government Act of 1978 is a United States federal law that was passed in the wake of the Nixon Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre

on ethics ever written." The main aim of the book is to provide a systematic account of the principles of commonsense morality. The three general methods

Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. Medical ethics is based

standards and impartiality, ethics of care emphasize the importance of response to the individual. The distinction between the general and the individual is