Who thinks that most people confuse ethics?
Richard William Paul and Linda Elder
What does ethics resolve?
Questions of human morality
What are the sub-branches?
Axiology
Who defines it as a set of guiding concepts?
Paul and Elder
Is ethics a branch of something?
Yes
Of what?
Philosophy
What fields is moral philosophy related to?
Moral psychology, descriptive ethics, and value theory.
Is it used to mean principles of a particular group?
Yes
What does philosophy involve?
Systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong.
does ethics answer questions?
Yes
of?
Human morality
how?
Defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime.
who else talks abut ethics in the article?
Rushworth Kidder
what phrase does he use?
'The science of the ideal human character'
and/or?
'The science of moral duty'
and what do these define?
The standard definitions of ethics.
what is ethics confused with?
Behaving in accordance with social conventions and the law.
and what else?
Religious beliefs
what does the cambridge dictionary say?
"[Ethics is] commonly used interchangeably with 'morality'"
how many areas of study are there today?
Three