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Parent topics
- philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
Subtopics
- altruism [r]: The characteristic of benefiting others without the expectation of reward. [e]
- animal rights [r]: Add brief definition or description
- bioethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Buddhist Ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- business ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- categorical imperative [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Christian ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- consent [r]: Add brief definition or description
- consequentialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- deontological ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- egoism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- emotivism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- environmental ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e]
- golden rule [r]: Add brief definition or description
- informed consent [r]: Agreement, by the person affected or his surrogate, to make a knowledgeable decision consenting to participation in a medical treatment or research trial [e]
- Islamic ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jewish ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- metaethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- moral relativism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- punishment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- sexual ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- social contract [r]: Agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each. [e]
- utilitarianism [r]: Philosophical doctrine created by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill which states that an action can be considered good to the extent that it increases the general level of happiness in society. [e]
- virtue ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- abortion [r]: the deliberate expulsion of an embryo or foetus from the womb for the purpose of ending a pregnancy [e]
- cloning [r]: The generation of genetically identical organisms, using cells derived from an original cell by fission (one cell dividing into two cells) or by mitosis (cell nucleus division with each chromosome splitting into two). [e]
- euthanasia [r]: The act of assisting in the death of an animal or patient, often to end suffering. [e]
