Search results
Results from the Tech24 Deals Content Network
Islam. In Islam, morality in the sense of "non practical guidelines" [ 1] or "specific norms or codes of behavior" for good doing (as opposed to ethical theory ), [ 2][ 3] are primarily based on the Quran and the Hadith – the central religious texts of Islam [ 4] – and also mostly "commonly known moral virtues" [ 5] whose major points "most ...
Islamic ethics. Islamic ethics (أخلاق إسلامية) is the "philosophical reflection upon moral conduct" with a view to defining "good character" and attaining the "pleasure of God" ( raza-e Ilahi ). [ 1][ 2] It is distinguished from "Islamic morality", which pertains to "specific norms or codes of behavior". [ 1]
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. The main branches of ethics include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics . Normative ethics aims to find general principles that govern how people ...
The Four Cardinal Principles and Eight Virtues are a set of Legalist (and later Confucian) foundational principles of morality. The Four Cardinal Principles are propriety ( 禮 ), righteousness ( 義 ), integrity ( 廉 ), and shame ( 恥 ). The Eight Virtues are loyalty ( 忠 ), filial piety ( 孝 ), benevolence ( 仁) love ( 愛 ), honesty ...
Virtue ethics (also aretaic ethics, [ a][ 1] from Greek ἀρετή [ aretḗ ]) is an approach that treats virtue and character as the primary subjects of ethics, in contrast to other ethical systems that put consequences of voluntary acts, principles or rules of conduct, or obedience to divine authority in the primary role.
Normative ethics. Normative ethics is the study of ethical behaviour and is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates questions regarding how one ought to act, in a moral sense. Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics in that the former examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, whereas the latter studies ...
Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive from a standard that is understood to be universal. [ 2] Morality may also be specifically synonymous with "goodness", "appropriateness" or "rightness". Moral philosophy includes meta-ethics, which ...
Secular ethics is a branch of moral philosophy in which ethics is based solely on human faculties such as logic, empathy, reason or moral intuition, and not derived from belief in supernatural revelation or guidance—a source of ethics in many religions. Secular ethics refers to any ethical system that does not draw on the supernatural, and ...