comparative ethics
English
Noun
comparative ethics (uncountable)
- (anthropology, sociology, ethics) A type of descriptive ethics, focused on studying the nature and origins of beliefs about morality held by people in diverse social or cultural groups.[1]
Translations
a type of descriptive ethics
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See also
- normative ethics
- metaethics
References
- Morris Ginsberg, "Comparative Ethics," The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 12 (July, 1953), pp. 253-256