A philosophy branch concerned with conduct and character. It deals with a systematic study of the principles and methods for distingushing right from wrong and good from bad.
Ethics addresses questions of right and wrong using reason rather than faith or tradition.
Philosophical ethics often called normative ethics and distinguished from descriptive ethics. Descriptive ethics is a department of empirical science, akin to sociology, that aims to discover and describe what moral beliefs are held in a given culture. Ethics is a branch of philosophy that attempts to help understand which ways of life are worth following and which actions are right or wrong. Ethics addresses questions of right and wrong using reason rather than faith or tradition. Ethics tries to introduce order into the way people think about life and action.