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Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term comes from the Greek word ethos, which means "character". Ethics is a complement to Aesthetics in the philosophy field of Axiology. In philosophy, ethics studies the moral behavior in humans and how one should act. Ethics may be divided into four major areas of study:

• Meta-ethics, about the theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions and how their truth values (if any) may be determined;
• Normative ethics, about the practical means of determining a moral course of action;
• Applied ethics, about how moral outcomes can be achieved in specific situations;
• Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality;

Ethics seeks to resolve questions dealing with human morality—concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.

• 1 Defining ethics
• 2 Meta-ethics
• 3 Normative ethics
  • 3.1 Historical ethical theories
    • 3.1.1 Virtue ethics
      • 3.1.1.1 Stoicism
    • 3.1.2 Hedonism
    • 3.1.3 Cyrenaic hedonism
      • 3.1.3.1 Epicureanism
    • 3.1.4 State consequentialism
  • 3.2 Modern normative ethics
    • 3.2.1 Consequentialism
      • 3.2.1.1 Utilitarianism
    • 3.2.2 Deontology
    • 3.2.3 Contemporary virtue ethics
    • 3.2.4 Pragmatic ethics
    • 3.2.5 Role ethics
    • 3.2.6 Postmodern ethics
• 4 Applied ethics
  • 4.1 Specific questions
  • 4.2 Particular fields of application
    • 4.2.1 Bioethics
    • 4.2.2 Geoethics
    • 4.2.3 Business ethics
    • 4.2.4 Relational ethics
    • 4.2.5 Machine ethics
    • 4.2.6 Military ethics
    • 4.2.7 Political ethics
    • 4.2.8 Public sector ethics
• 5 Moral psychology
  • 5.1 Evolutionary ethics
• 6 Descriptive ethics
• 7 See also
• 8 Notes
• 9 References
• 10 Further reading
• 11 External links

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