List of ethics articles

This list of ethics articles attempts to put all articles on concepts central to ethical (right and wrong, good and bad) decisions in one place - this necessarily includes more practical problems of philosophy, and more abstract subjects in law, politics, and some aspects of the professions and of the practice of science - not what they think but how they do it, and most importantly what they refuse to do, e.g. experiment on.

It must also necessarily list core concepts essential to understanding ethics as applied in various religions, without which we unethically undervalue these.

This list will necessarily overlap with lists in any of the above. Political and diplomatic concepts should not be included unless they constitute a profound ethical problem, e.g. choices like the prevention of genocide by violating national sovereignty.

Please add concepts specific to economics or Islam to the list of economics articles and list of Islamic terms in Arabic instead. We recognize that economics and Islam have specific ethical assumptions, only imperfectly characterized by inclusion in a list such as this. Accordingly those concepts are removed to other articles to be more fully explained and fairly presented. Please follow this practice in new articles.

Please add any article that you think clearly matches these criteria here. Do not capitalize the first character unless the term is a proper name and describes a single well-documented text or principle:

• abortion
• aesthetics
• adversarial process
• alm[?] - from the list of Islamic terms in Arabic
• animal rights
• ape genocide
• applied ethics
• arbitration
• belief - a core issue
• bioethics
• biowar
• border
• carceral state
• case-based reasoning specifically
  • casuistry
• civics
• civil law
• civil procedure
• closure - a fundamental issue
• collective intelligence
• collectivism
• consensus
• consensus decision making
• consent - a core issue
• Cosmist
• criminal justice
  • retributive justice
  • restorative justice
  • equity-restorative justice[?]
  • transformative justice
  • psychiatric imprisonment
• criminal law
• criminal procedure
• cult
• dissent - a core issue
• equity
• ethics - an introdution to the basic terminology
• etiquette
• ethical code
• evil - a core issue
• faction[?]
• fairness - a core issue
• forgiveness - a core issue
• fundamentalism
• Gaian
• genetic modification
• genocide
• ideals[?] - a core issue
• ideology
• ignorance[?] - a core issue
• individualism
• international law
• Islamization of knowledge
• just war
• justice
• knowledge
• law - usually a core issue
• legal code and examples
  • English Common Law
  • Napoleonic Code
  • United States constitutional law
• liability
• molecular engineering
• moral
• moral code and examples
  • Golden Rule
  • Noble Eightfold Path
  • Ten Commandments
• moral core
• moral liability
• morality
• national sovereignty
• nationalism
• politics - see also political science
• power - a core issue
• Precautionary Principle
• precedent
• punishment
• revenge
• safety - a core issue
• sociology of knowledge
• state (politics)
• tendency (politics)[?]
• Terran
• terrist
• war
• wealth
• wisdom

There is also a simple view of ethics and morals in Meta-Encyclopedian which is used as a basis for arbitration there.