# Index of ethics articles

This index of ethics articles puts articles relevant to well-known ethical (right and wrong, good and bad) debates and decisions in one place – including practical problems long known in philosophy, and the more abstract subjects in law, politics, and some professions and sciences. It lists also those core concepts essential to understanding ethics as applied in various religions, some movements derived from religions, and religions discussed as if they were a theory of ethics making no special claim to divine status.

## A

* A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain
* Abortion, legal and moral issues
* absolutism
* abuse of trust
* Academic integrity
* Accidentalism
* accounting reform
* Act utilitarianism
* Adam Zachary Newton
* adultery
* advertising
* Advice (opinion)
* Aequiprobabilism
* Affect (philosophy)
* Agathusia and aschimothusia
* Ahimsa
* All men are created equal
* Altruism
* Amoralism
* animal rights
* anti-psychiatry
* Anti-social behaviour
* Antidosis
* Antinatalism
* Antinomianism
* applied ethics
* arbitration
* archaeological ethics
* Argument from morality
* Aristotelianism
* arrogance
* artificial intelligence
* Ascriptivism
* authority
* Autonomy
* avarice
* axiology

## B

* Backbiting
* Beginning of human personhood
* Biocentrism (ethics)
* biodefense
* bioethics
* biosafety
* biosafety protocol
* biosecurity
* Biosphere Reserve
* biowar
* black market
* blame
* borders
* Brownie points
* Business and Professional Ethics Journal
* Buddhist ethics
* business ethics
* Business Ethics Quarterly

## C

* capital punishment
* carceral state
* case-based reasoning, especially casuistry
* categorical imperative
* Catholic Probabilism
* censorship
* child labor
* Chrematistics
* Christian ethics
* circumcision
* civics
* civil law
* civil procedure
* cloning, especially human cloning
* Cognitivism (ethics)
* Coherent Extrapolated Volition
* Collectivism and individualism
* Commensurability (ethics)
* Common good
* common sense
* Compassion
* Compensationism
* Competing goods
* conceptual metaphor
* Confucianism
* Conscience
* consensual crime
* consensus decision making
* consensus reality
* consent
* Consequentialism
* conservation
* conservation movement
* consumerism
* Contextualism
* Contractualism
* Conventionalism
* corporate accountability
* corporate crime
* Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
* Corruption
* courage
* cowardice
* creative accounting
* Crime
* criminal justice (- retributive justice - restorative justice - transformative justice - psychiatric imprisonment)
* Critique of Practical Reason
* cult
* cultural bias
* Cynicism (philosophy)
* Cynicism (contemporary)

## D

* debt
* debt slavery
* Decadence
* Decisionism
* deliberative democracy
* democracy
* Deontological ethics
* deontology
* descriptive ethics
* Desert (philosophy)
* Dignity
* Dirty hands
* discourse ethics
* discrediting tactic
* Discrimination
* dissent
* distribution of wealth
* Distrust
* divine command theory
* doctrine of double effect
* dog fighting
* dominator culture
* Double-mindedness
* doubt
* duty
* Darwinism

## E

* Ecological Self
* education reform
* educational perennialism
* Effective altruism
* egalitarianism
* Egoism
* election
* elitism
* Emotivism
* environmental ethics
* envy
* epistemic community
* equality
* equity
* eradication of suffering
* ethic of care
* ethical calculus
* ethical code
* Ethical decision
* Ethical dilemma
* ethical egoism
* ethical extensionism
* Ethical formalism
* ethical implications in contracts
* Ethical intuitionism
* ethical investing
* ethical naturalism
* ethical non-naturalism
* ethical purchasing
* Ethical relationship
* Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
* ethicist
* Ethics
* Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists
* Ethics & International Affairs (journal)
* Ethics Bowl
* Ethics in mathematics
* Ethics in religion
* Ethics of artificial intelligence
* Ethics of care
* Ethics of eating meat
* Ethics of justice
* Ethics of uncertain sentience
* etiquette
* Eudaimonia
* Eutaxiology
* euthanasia
* evil
* exploratory engineering
* Expressivism
* Extrication morality

## F

* faction
* fair trade
* family values
* Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence)
* forgiveness
* Formal ethics
* fornication
* free software
* Free will
* Freedom
* Friedman doctrine
* fundamentalism

## G

* gender
* gene therapy
* genetic modification
* genocide
* world debt
* gluttony
* goodness
* Government ethics
* graded absolutism
* greed
* Green movement
* group entity
* guilt

## H

* Hamartiology
* Happiness
* Halal
* Haram
* hate
* hedonism
* Heresy
* Higher good
* homeschooling
* Homestead principle
* homosexuality
* honesty
* Honour
* How Are We to Live?
* human cloning
* human resources
* human rights
* Humanitarianism

## I

* Ideal (ethics)
* Ideology
* Immorality
* In vitro fertilisation
* individualism
* Initiation of force
* Injustice
* Insects in ethics
* Institutional cruelty
* instructional technology
* Internalism and externalism
* international law
* Intrinsic value (ethics)
* Islamic ethics
* Islamization of knowledge

## J

* Jainism
* Jain ethics
* jealousy
* Jewish ethics
* Jewish medical ethics
* Journal of Business Ethics
* Journal of Business Ethics Education
* journalism ethics and standards
* Just war

## K

* Kathekon
* Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

## L

* land ethic
* law
* legal code (examples: English Common Law - Napoleonic Code - United States constitutional law)
* Legalism (theology)
* Li (Confucianism)
* liability
* Liberty
* logical positivism
* Love and Responsibility
* lust
* lying (see - doctrine of mental reservation)

## M

* Machine ethics
* marketing
* Max Lüscher
* McDonald Centre
* Means to an end
* mediation
* medical ethics
* mercy
* meta-ethics
* Miguel A. De La Torre
* military medical ethics
* Misotheism
* modern Islamic philosophy
* Modern Moral Philosophy
* molecular engineering
* monetary reform
* moral absolutism
* Moral agency
* Moral bioenhancement
* moral code (examples: Golden Rule - Noble Eightfold Path - Ten Commandments)
* Moral character
* moral community
* Moral compass
* Moral development
* Moral economy
* Moral emotions
* Moral equivalence
* moral equivalent
* moral example
* Moral hierarchy
* Moral imperative
* Moral luck
* Moral nihilism
* Moral obligation
* Moral particularism
* Moral patienthood
* Moral perception
* Moral psychology
* Moral rationalism
* Moral reasoning
* Moral relativism
* Moral responsibility
* moral skepticism
* moral syndrome
* moral universalism
* Moralism
* Mussar Movement (Jewish ethical movement)

## N

* national sovereignty
* nationalism
* Natural and legal rights
* Natural law
* Natural order (philosophy)
* naturalistic fallacy
* neuroethics
* Nihilism
* Noble lie
* Non-cognitivism
* nonviolence
* Norm (philosophy)
* normative ethics

## O

* oath
* Objectivism
* Objectivist movement
* Organizational ethics
* ownership

## P

* paradox of hedonism
* Parenting For Everyone
* particle physics
* Passion play
* Paternalism
* peacekeeping
* Personism
* persuasion technology
* Pessimism
* philosophy of law
* Philosophy of love
* plagiarism
* planned obsolescence
* Pleonexia
* poker collusion
* political privacy
* Population ethics
* Postgenderism
* Poverty
* power
* precautionary principle
* predation problem
* Prevention of Disasters Principle
* pride
* Principia Ethica
* Principle
* Principlism
* Prior Informed Consent
* Prioritarianism
* privacy
* Probabilism
* professional ethics
* Projectivism
* Promise
* Proportionalism
* Protected values
* Protrepsis and paraenesis
* Prudentialism
* psychological pain
* public relations
* punishment
* Puruṣārtha

## Q

* Quality (philosophy)
* Quasi-realism

## R

* race to the bottom
* racism
* Rational egoism
* reflective equilibrium
* Regulatory ethics
* relationship between animal ethics and environmental ethics
* relationship between religion and science
* relationship ethics
* relativism
* Relativism
* religion
* religious law
* ren
* reproductive technology
* Resources for clinical ethics consultation
* revenge
* Reverence for Life
* revolt
* Righteousness
* Rights
* Rights Ethics
* Ring of Gyges
* risk of astronomical suffering
* Roboethics
* Rule egoism
* rural development

## S

* Samaritan's dilemma
* satyagraha
* scandal
* scientific misconduct
* scientism
* Scientology ethics and justice
* Secular ethics
* Selling out
* Seny
* Sexual ethics
* Shame
* sin
* situational ethics
* sloth
* social control
* sociology of knowledge
* soundbite
* Speciesism
* Stem cell controversy
* Sten Philipson
* Stewardship
* Stockholder theory
* stoicism
* subjectivism
* Suffering
* suffering-focused ethics
* suicide (philosophical views)
* Supererogation

## T

* Taboo
* Teaism
* Tearoom Trade
* Techniques of neutralization
* technology assessment
* telemarketing
* Telishment
* The Ethical Slut
* The Schizophrenia of Modern Ethical Theories
* theory of value
* Thick concept
* Title-transfer theory of contract
* Torture
* tragedy of the commons
* Trail ethics
* transhumanism
* Transsexualism
* triage
* Trolley problem
* trust
* Trust (social sciences)
* Tirukkural

## U

* Ubuntu (ideology)
* Universal code (ethics)
* Universal law
* Universal prescriptivism
* universal values
* urban secession
* usury
* Utilitarian bioethics
* utilitarianism

## V

* Value (ethics)
* Value judgment
* value of Earth
* value of life
* Value pluralism
* value theory
* vanity
* Veganism
* Vegetarianism
* Veil of ignorance (philosophy)
* verbal abuse
* Veritism
* victimless crime
* Virtue
* virtue ethics
* Visual ethics
* Vojin Rakić
* Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights
* vow

## W

* war
* Welfarism
* Wild animal suffering
* will (philosophy)
* wrath
* Wrong