Your ethical framework
How you decide what's right — the moral framework you reason from. Each described plainly and even-handedly.
A self-identification with a normative-ethics framework, described neutrally — none is presented as the correct one. (Normative ethics)
Groups
- Consequentialism — Right action is whatever produces the best outcomes.
- Utilitarianism — A form of consequentialism: maximise overall well-being for the most people.
- Deontology — Some duties and rules are binding regardless of the outcome.
- Virtue ethics — Focus on character — act as a good and wise person would.
- Care ethics — Grounds morality in relationships, empathy, and responsibility to others.
- Contractarianism — Morality is the set of rules rational people would agree to.
- Moral relativism — Right and wrong depend on culture or individual perspective.
- Religious ethics — Moral guidance comes from a faith tradition's teachings.
- Intuitionism — We grasp right and wrong directly through moral intuition.
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