List of ethics models
This list provides important structural models in the field of ethics .
Differentiation according to the type of treatment of ethical statements
- Normative ethics
- General ethics (ethics in the sense of the word)
- Applied ethics (area ethics )
- Descriptive ethics
- Metaethics
Differentiation according to the type of justification for ethical statements
- Theological ethics
- Religious-philosophical, but not theological ethics
- Philosophical ethics
Differentiation according to the number of advised persons
Differentiation according to principles and values (general ethics, also normative ethics)
- Ethics of mindfulness
- Deontological ethics
- Ethical egoism
- Ethics of success
- Evolutionary ethics
- Ethics of conviction
- Happiness ethics / eudaemonism
- hedonism
- Consensus theory / discourse theory / dialogue ethics
- Consequentialism
- Compassionate ethics
- Duty ethics
- Ethics of principles
- Teleological ethics
- Virtue ethics
- utilitarianism
- Ethics of responsibility
- Contract Theory / Contractualism
- Ethics of values
Differentiation according to application areas (area ethics , see also applied ethics )
- Work ethic
- Medical ethics
- Educational ethics
- Bioethics
- Care ethics
- Computer ethics
- Decision ethics
- Ethics of peace
- Governance ethics
- Generational ethics
- Hacker ethics
- Information ethics
- Institutional ethics
- Conflict ethics
- Consumer ethics
- Ethics of war
- Cultural ethics
- Performance ethics
- Media ethics
- Medical ethics
- Natural ethics
- Neuroethics
- Ecological ethics
- Plant ethics
- Nursing ethics
- Political ethics
- Police ethics
- Population ethics
- Legal ethics
- Reproductive ethics
- Risk ethics
- Robot ethics
- Sexual ethics
- Security ethics
- Sports ethics
- Technology ethics
- Animal ethics
- Environmental ethics
- Business ethics
- Administrative ethics
- Virtual ethics
- Business ethics
- Science ethics
- Future ethics