Bioethics
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Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health, including those emerging from advances in biology, medicine, and technologies. It proposes
Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of Artaxerxes by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, 1792
Ethics
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Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branc
Bioethics
…Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology…
According to Aristotle, how to lead a good life is one of the central questions of ethics.
Immanuel Kant formulated a deontological system based on universal laws that apply to all rational creatures.
According to discourse ethics, as formulated by Jürgen Habermas, moral norms are justified by rational discourse within society.
The practices of compassion and loving-kindness are key elements of Buddhist ethics.