Applied ethics

Applied ethics

Branch of ethics that considers the practical application of ethical principles to specific issues of social or personal concern, including medical ethics, professional ethics, and environmental ethics. Thus, applied ethics often tries to provide guidance on specific issues within the context of a consistent notion of the elements of a good life.

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applied ethics

Philosophy; General philosophy

Branch of ethics that considers the practical application of ethical principles to specific issues of social or personal concern, including medical ethics, professional ethics, ...

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Professional careers; Sales

Standards of conduct, set of principles of morals, an important subject for sales professionals, sometimes known as "doing what's right for the customer".

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Legal services; Courts

Of or relating to moral action and conduct; professionally right; conforming to professional standards.

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Health care; Pharmacy

* A set of moral principles or values that help to establish right from wrong encompassed in the standards of professional behavior for a practitioner. * Character or ideals ...

ethics

Medical; Medical research

The branch of philosophy that deals with distinctions between right and wrong and with the moral consequences of human actions. Examples of ethical issues that arise in medical ...

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Language; Public speaking

The branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs.

ineffability

Philosophy; Philosophy; General philosophy; General philosophy

Something "that cannot be expressed or described in language/words". It is concerned with ideas that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words (or language in general), ...

idea

Philosophy; General philosophy

An idea is the content of cognition, a perception in consciousness of an object, which is the main thing you are thinking about and is therefore often deemed a personal view. ...

Godel’s incompleteness theorem

Philosophy; General philosophy

See completeness.

ethical egoism

Philosophy; General philosophy

See psychological egoism.

existentialism

Philosophy; General philosophy

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extensional

Philosophy; General philosophy

Having, or presupposing, a use of terms that is wholly determined by what falls under them (in this actual world). The meaning of a term in the extensional sense is given just by ...

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