REP

Applied ethics: The branch of ethics concerned with the analysis of specific, controversial moral issues such as abortion, animal rights, or euthanasia.

Descriptive ethics: The study of people's beliefs about morality, focusing on what moral beliefs and practices people actually have.

Normative ethics: The branch of ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act, morally speaking.

Subjectivism: The doctrine that knowledge is merely subjective and that there is no external or objective truth.

Objectivism: The belief that certain things, especially moral truths, exist independently of human knowledge or perception of them.

Relativism: The idea that points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration.

Metaethics: The branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature, scope, and meaning of ethical terms, statements, and judgments.

Deontology: An ethical theory that uses rules to distinguish right from wrong, focusing on the morality of actions themselves rather than the consequences of those actions.