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African Ethics First published Thu Sep 9, 2010 The ethics of a society is embedded in the ideas and beliefs about what is right or wrong, what is a good or bad character; it is also embedded in the conceptions of satisfactory social relations and attitudes held by the members of the society; it is embedded, ...
Descartes’ Ethics First published Wed Aug 6, 2003; substantive revision Tue Dec 14, 2021 Descartes is not well known for his contributions to ethics. Some have charged that it is a weakness of his philosophy that it focuses exclusively on metaphysics and epistemology to the exclusion of moral and political ...
Business Ethics First published Thu Nov 17, 2016; substantive revision Tue Jun 8, 2021 Exchange is fundamental to business. ‘Business’ can mean an activity of exchange. One entity (e.g., a person, a firm) “does business” with another when it exchanges a good or service for valuable consideration, i.e., ...
Chinese Ethics First published Thu Jan 10, 2008; substantive revision Fri Sep 14, 2018 The tradition of Chinese ethical thought is centrally concerned with questions about how one ought to live: what goes into a worthwhile life, how to weigh duties toward family versus duties toward strangers, whether ...
Deontological Ethics First published Wed Nov 21, 2007; substantive revision Fri Oct 30, 2020 The word deontology derives from the Greek words for duty (deon) and science (or study) of (logos). In contemporary moral philosophy, deontology is one of those kinds of normative theories regarding which choices ...
Environmental Ethics First published Mon Jun 3, 2002; substantive revision Fri Dec 3, 2021 Environmental ethics is the discipline in philosophy that studies the moral relationship of human beings to, and also the value and moral status of, the environment and its non-human contents. This entry covers: ...
Virtue Ethics First published Fri Jul 18, 2003; substantive revision Thu Dec 8, 2016 Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics. It may, initially, be identified as the one that emphasizes the virtues, or moral character, in contrast to the approach that emphasizes ...
Feminist Ethics First published Mon May 27, 2019 Feminist Ethics aims “to understand, criticize, and correct” how gender operates within our moral beliefs and practices (Lindemann 2005, 11) and our methodological approaches to ethical theory. More specifically, feminist ethicists aim to understand, ...
The Ethics of Belief First published Mon Jun 14, 2010; substantive revision Mon Mar 5, 2018 The “ethics of belief” refers to a cluster of questions at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, and psychology. The central question in the debate is whether there are norms of some sort ...
Biodiversity Preservation The diversity of life on earth has long been thought to deserve attention, and respect. John Muir used a version of Christianity in his attempt to argue that species deserve ... ethics of conservation has a specific focus on preservation of wilderness as such, or at least a focus on landscapes and populations that are natural. In fact, high biodiversity, by some measures, can ...
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