Philosophy often carries the reputation of being a discipline reserved for intellectuals, scholars, and academics. For many, ...

Those who lack ethical knowledge tend to judge impulsively ... As Aristotle argues in Virtue Theory, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”.

But now even philosophers are less sure that it's possible to devise a satisfactory and complete theory of ethics - at least not one that leads to conclusions. Modern thinkers often teach that ...

Find out more about available formats and browse any associated online resources. For forty years, successive editions of Ethical Theory and Business have helped to define the field of business ethics ...

After studying various moral theories, one is bound to be left wondering what to believe. In this selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels sketches what he thinks would be a ...

Even canonical authors in the history of welfare economics are shown to have adopted ethical positions different from those with which they are commonly associated. Welfare Theory, Public Action, and ...

Here are some of the arguments that have been put forward: all war is unjust and has no place in any ethical theory morality must always oppose deliberate violence just war ideas tend to make ...

Jules Holroyd has written about what feminists might have to contribute to the question of what a good life consists in. Ethics also has close connections to issues in political and social philosophy, ...

Ethical theories represent the grand ideas on which guiding principles are based. They attempt to be coherent and systematic, striving to answer the fundamental practical ethical questions ...