PHILOSOPHY OF ETHICS.
The term comes from the Greek word ethos, meaning "character", and can also be called philosophical ethics, ethics theory, moral theory and moral philosophy. In general, Ethics seeks to resolve issues that deal with morality's human concepts, like good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.
The ethical philosophy is therefore a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending and defining, the concepts of behavioral right, wrong and indifferent, so often faces controversies of moral diversity. The philosophical ethics investigates what is the best way of life for human beings, and what types of actions are right or wrong in particular circumstances. Ethics can be divided into four main areas of study:
  • Meta-ethics, which look at the theoretical significance  referring to moral propositions and how their degrees of auenticity (if any) can be determined;
  • Normative ethics, about practical means of determining the moral path of actions;
  • Applied ethics, which draws on ethical theory to determine what a person is obliged to do under certain very specific situations, or in some particular field of activity (such as businesses);
  • Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, that  is the study of people's beliefs about morality.


Lino Prospero Bertuzzi