Philosophers nowadays tend to divide ethical theories into three areas: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. Meta-ethics deals with the nature of moral judgement. It looks at the ...

Whittaker had continued, in accordance with English tradition, to try to derive the ethical law of justice from “ends” or “goods.” But the a priori cannot be avoided; and if a metaphysical ...

Joseph Fletcher, Naturalism, situation ethics and value theory, in Ethics at the Crossroads, 1995 Situation ethics was originally devised in a Christian context, but it can easily be applied in a ...

After studying various moral theories, one is bound to be left wondering what to believe. In this selection from The Elements of Moral Philosophy, James Rachels sketches what he thinks would be a ...

WASHINGTON — The disciplinary panel of the D.C. Bar reached a preliminary conclusion that former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark committed an ethical violation when he pushed ...