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 ethics), or it can analyse and theorise about the nature of morality and ethics.[1]
Contemporary study of ethics has many links with other disciplines in philosophy itself and other sciences.[2] Normative ethics has declined, while meta-ethics is increasingly followed. Abstract theorizing has in many areas been replaced by experience-based research.[3]
- ^ "Ethics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]". Iep.utm.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ Almond, Brenda (ed. with D Hill),1991 Applied Philosophy: Morals and Metaphysics in Contemporary Debate London: Routledge.
- ^ Appiah, Kwame Anthony. (2008). Experiments in Ethics. Harvard University Press.