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'Center for Ethics and Business

1. Philosophical ethics
Ethics is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral
virtue and evaluates human actions. Philosophical ethics differs
from legal, religious, cultural and personal approaches to ethics by
seeking to conduct the study of morality through a rational, secular
outlook that is grounded in notions of human happiness or
well-being. A major advantage of a philosophical approach to ethics
is that it avoids the authoritarian basis of law and religion as
well as the subjectivity, arbitrariness and irrationality that may
characterize cultural or totally personal moral views. (Although
some thinkers differentiate between "ethics," "morals," "ethical"
and "moral," this discussion will use them synonymously.)
Generally speaking, there are two traditions in......

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