Applied Ethics
The reasoning behind decisions that matter. Free to read, practice and play, with no sign-up.
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Chapters
- 1What Ethics Is, and What It Is NotThe Study of the Ought, Six Things Ethics Is Not, The Map of Moral Theory, The Working Vocabulary
- 2Moral Reasoning and ArgumentThe Anatomy of a Moral Argument, From Facts to Values: The Is–Ought Problem, Validity, Soundness and the Fallacies That Keep Coming Back
- 3Consequentialism and UtilitarianismThe Core Idea and Its Machinery, What Counts as a Good Outcome, Act, Rule and the Problem of Uncertainty
- 4Deontology and the Ethics of DutyWhy Outcomes Are Not the Whole Story, Kant: The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative, Duties, Conflicts and W.D. Ross
- 5Virtue Ethics and CharacterFrom the Act to the Agent, Aristotle’s Machinery: Habit, Mean, Wisdom, Character Beyond Athens
- 6Care Ethics, Rights and JusticeThe Ethics of Care, What a Right Actually Is, Justice: The Formal Idea and Its Rivals
- 7Relativism, Objectivity and Moral DisagreementFive Things People Mean by “It’s All Relative”, The Argument From Disagreement, and Why It Fails, Objectivity Without Absolutism
- 8Bioethics: The Four PrinciplesWhere the Four Principles Came From, Respect for Autonomy, Nonmaleficence and Beneficence
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- 9Consent, Confidentiality and the End of LifeHow Consent Became a Duty, The Anatomy of a Valid Consent, Capacity, Surrogates and Planning Ahead
- 10Professional and Business EthicsWhat a Profession Is, and What It Asks of You, Codes, Licensure and the Machinery of Accountability, Conflicts of Interest: How Good People Drift
- 11Social Justice, Equity and DiscriminationEquality, Equity and the Shape of Structural Injustice, What Discrimination Is, and Why It Is Wrong, The Gradient: Equity Where It Is Measured Best
- 12Environmental and Animal EthicsWho Counts? Drawing the Moral Circle, Animals in Laboratories, Farms and Fisheries, Climate Change: Harm Across Distance and Time
- 13Technology, Data and Artificial IntelligenceWhy Technology Is Never Neutral, Privacy, Data and the Myth of Consent, Bias in the Machine
- 14Building an Ethical PracticeThe Distance Between Knowing and Doing, A Method You Can Actually Use, Moral Courage: Saying It Out Loud, in a Hierarchy