Editing Ethics (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Ethics''' — The philosophical study of morality, including what is right and wrong, good and bad, and how we should live.
* '''Metaethics''' — Philosophical inquiry into the nature of moral facts, moral language, and moral knowledge.
* '''Normative ethics''' — The study of moral principles and theories that prescribe how we ought to act.
* '''Applied ethics''' — Application of ethical theory to specific moral issues: bioethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, AI ethics.
* '''Moral realism''' — The view that objective moral facts exist independently of minds; moral claims can be true or false.
* '''Moral anti-realism''' — The view that there are no objective moral facts; moral judgments express attitudes or conventions.
* '''Consequentialism''' — The view that actions are right or wrong based on their consequences; outcomes determine morality.
* '''Utilitarianism''' — A form of consequentialism holding that the right action maximizes overall happiness/utility; Bentham, Mill.
* '''Deontology''' — The view that actions are right or wrong intrinsically, independent of consequences; duties and rights are primary; Kant.
* '''Categorical Imperative''' — Kant's supreme moral principle: act only on maxims you could will to be universal laws.
* '''Virtue Ethics''' — The view that ethics is about character; the right action is what a virtuous person would do; Aristotle.
* '''Eudaimonia''' — Aristotle's term for the goal of human life: human flourishing or wellbeing.
* '''Social Contract Theory''' — Moral and political obligations derive from an (actual or hypothetical) agreement among persons; Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls.
* '''The Veil of Ignorance''' — Rawls's device: choose principles of justice without knowing your place in society.
* '''Trolley Problem''' — A famous moral dilemma: pull a lever to divert a trolley, killing one person instead of five?
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