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Ethics

Ethics is the study of what's right and wrong (the word "morality" has a very similar, if not identical meaning) - as in "Stealing is wrong", not as in "2+2=3 is wrong".

As with other branches of philosophy, there is virtually nothing in ethics on which everyone agrees, not even the foundations.

Sites in Ethics

Institute for Global Ethics
A non-sectarian, non-partisan organization dedicated to elevating public awareness and discourse on ethics in a global context. Site includes pages on education, public policy, corporations, and foundation ethics and training.
Wayne State University - Morality, Ethics and Philosophy Research Resources
A links page.
University of Tennessee - Definition of Ethics (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Covers metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics in depth.
Brown University - Electronic Article Review Service (BEARS)
Online forums on ethical, moral, and political philosophy. Book reviews, too.
Essays on Theology and Ethics
Issues in Christian ethics, written from a liberal theological perspective. Comments welcomed.
Boston University - Theoretical Ethics
Papers given at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts August 10-15, 1998.
'Book of metaethics'
"Metaphysical study of virtue ethics and consulting for businesses and individuals."
The Center for Life Principles
A pro-life philosophy aimed at helping our culture overcome the destructive reality of abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide.
Ethics: Honesty and Fairness, An Apple-Pie Primer of Ethics
An informal, conversational piece about the basics of everyday ethics: argues that dishonesty punishes everyone in a society.
Astrolabe
Ethical Navigations through Virtual Technologies: both a method for finding out your personal ethical belief system preference and for finding out attributes of a number of other ethical belief systems.
Why Study Morals and Ethics?
Critique of "postmodern ethics" from a conservative Christian perspective.
The Role Of Morality
Emphasis is on the necessity of authority and traditional morality, the role of the community and the father in instilling values and the consequences of immorality and selfishness.
University of Oxford - Information Ethics: On the Philosophical Foundation of Computer Ethics
Paper by Luciano Floridi arguing that Information Ethics is not merely a subfield of applied ethics which applies existing ethical theories, but rather that it raises questions which fundamentally challenge existing theories.
United People
A call to people of good will everywhere to agree on a universal basis for moral conduct.
Peter Singer Links
Categorized list of links related to Australian philosopher Peter Singer, in six languages: letters, articles by him and about him, book reviews, and interviews.
Mississippi State University - The Tavani Bibliography of Computing, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
Covers professional issues in computing. It was originally used in a computer ethics course and then was broadened in topic.
Why Should America Care?
Paper by Larry Temkin arguing that it is wrong to ignore the poor and needy under all major views of ethics - consequentialist, deontological, and virtue ethics.
DePaul University - Institute for Business and Professional Ethics
Includes information on the University program in ethics, online copies of their Ethics journal, and other resources in ethics.
Ethics and Emotions
Links to articles and bibliographies, most scholarly.
Sandiego.edu - Ethics Updates
Designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional. Includes moral theory and applied ethics: ethical relativism, bioethics, euthanasia, religion, gender and racial equality, sexual orientation, poverty, world hunger, virtue ethics, animal rights, environmental and military ethics.
The Conquest of the Future: Science, Technology, and Philosophy
Essays relating an individual's view on ethical and philosophical arguments, by João Pedro de Magalhães. Includes articles on human nature, transhumanism, individualism, utilitarianism, and egoism.
University of San Diego - Classic Texts in Ethics
Links to online resources.

sub categories in Ethics

Applied Applied
Education Education
Ethicists Ethicists
Metaethics Metaethics
Normative Normative
Directories Directories
Environmental Environmental
Feminist Feminist
Nonviolence Nonviolence
Virtue Theory Virtue Theory

cross references

Society : Philosophy : Metaphysics : Free Will and Determinism Society : Philosophy : Metaphysics : Free Will and Determinism

other references

Business : Management : Ethics Business : Management : Ethics
Society : Religion and Spirituality : Atheism : Ethics Society : Religion and Spirituality : Atheism : Ethics
Society : Religion and Spirituality : Morality Society : Religion and Spirituality : Morality

this category in other languages

Etik Danish : Etik
Ethiek Dutch : Ethiek
Ethique French : Ethique
Ethik German : Ethik
倫理学 Japanese : 倫理学
Ética Spanish : Ética
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