Ethics & Communication
Ethics is a general term for what is often described as the “science of morality.” In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is “good.” The Western tradition of ethics is sometimes called moral philosophy. This is one of the three major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics and epistemology.
Ethics can be divided into several categories such as descriptive ethics, metaethics, and normative ethics, applied ethics.
Descriptive Ethics
Simply involves describing how people behave and/or what sorts of moral standards they claim to follow.
Descriptive ethics will include research from the fields of anthropology; psychology, sociology and history in order to determine what people do or have believed about moral norms. Descriptive ethics is sometimes referred to as comparative ethics because so much activity can involve comparing ethical systems: comparing the ethics of the past to the present, comparing the ethics of one society to......
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