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In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach. ~ <a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a> </figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics" class="extiw" title="w:Ethics">Ethics</a></b> (from Ancient Greek <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%A0%CE%B8%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:ἠθικός">ethikos</a></i>) is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There is no ethical idea which it [dharma] has not stressed, put in its most ideal and imperative form, enforced by teaching, injunction, parable, artistic creation, formative examples. Truth, honour, loyalty, fidelity, courage, chastity, love, long-suffering, self-sacrifice, harmlessness, forgiveness, compassion, benevolence, beneficence are its common themes, are, in its view, the very stuff of a right human life, the essence of man's dharma. Buddhism, with its high and noble ethics, Jainism, with its austere ideal of self-conquest, Hinduism, with its magnificent examples of all sides of the Dharma, are not inferior in ethical teaching and practice to any religion or system, but rather take the highest rank and have had the strongest effective force. <ul><li>Aurobindo, Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo: The Renaissance in India , 1997: 148). quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> filled out further details on the foundation laid by <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, founded the disciplines of <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a>, elaborated individual and social ethics, and discussed fundamental issues of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/literary_criticism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:literary criticism">literary criticism</a>. The later systems centered around the attempt to find satisfaction in human living by self-control, refined enjoyment, or suspension of judgment of ultimate problems. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Edwin_Avey" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Albert Edwin Avey">Albert Edwin Avey</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i>Handbook in the History of Philosophy</i>. New York: Barnes & Noble. 1954. p. 20.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Handbook+in+the+History+of+Philosophy&rft.date=1954&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B20&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Barnes+%26+Noble&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Ethics"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joxe_Azurmendi" title="Joxe Azurmendi">Joxe Azurmendi</a>, interview in <i>Deia</i> (1 September 2012)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:March_of_Death_from_Bataan_to_the_prison_camp_-_Dead_soldiers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/March_of_Death_from_Bataan_to_the_prison_camp_-_Dead_soldiers.jpg/220px-March_of_Death_from_Bataan_to_the_prison_camp_-_Dead_soldiers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/March_of_Death_from_Bataan_to_the_prison_camp_-_Dead_soldiers.jpg/330px-March_of_Death_from_Bataan_to_the_prison_camp_-_Dead_soldiers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/March_of_Death_from_Bataan_to_the_prison_camp_-_Dead_soldiers.jpg/440px-March_of_Death_from_Bataan_to_the_prison_camp_-_Dead_soldiers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1448" /></a><figcaption>An ethic gone <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a> is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/concentration_camp" class="extiw" title="w:concentration camp">concentration camp</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/death_march" class="extiw" title="w:death march">death march</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Simon_Blackburn" title="Simon Blackburn">Simon Blackburn</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>“When someone asks for the ethics tape, we know they’ve already decided to invest. They just want some reassurance so they can feel good about it, too. That's the thing you learn about values, Jones: they're what people make up to justify what they did. Did you take business ethics in college?”<br />“Yes.”<br />“They teach you people’s behavior is guided by their values, right? That’s a load of crap. When you watch people like we do, you find out it’s the other way around. Look, I believe in what Alpha does, I really do. But do I worry about whether every little thing we do is ethical? No, because you can rationalize anything as ethical. You talk to a criminal—a tax dodger, a serial killer, a child abuser—and every one of them will justify their actions. They’ll explain to you, totally seriously, why they had to do what they did. Why they’re still good people. That’s the thing: when people talk about the importance of ethics, they never include themselves. The day anyone, anywhere, admits that they personally are unethical, I’ll start taking that whole issue seriously.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Max_Barry" title="Max Barry">Max Barry</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Company (novel)">Company</a></i> (2006), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-51439-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-51439-5">ISBN 0-385-51439-5</a>, pp. 111-112</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>She takes a deep breath. “Whoo. Okay. Tell me how you justify buying a new pair of shoes.”<br />“What?”<br />“When there are starving people in Africa, what kind of person spends two hundred bucks on shoes? See, once you buy into that paradigm, it’s a bottomless pit. You can never feel good about yourself while there’s anybody in the world poor or hungry, which there always is, Jones, and has been since the dawn of time, so you feel guilty and hypocritical all the time. <i>I'm</i> consistent. I admit I don’t care. You want me to reassure you that Alpha is ethical, but I'm not going to do it, because ethics is bullshit. It’s the spin we put on our lives to justify what we do. I say, be big enough to live without rationalizations.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Max_Barry" title="Max Barry">Max Barry</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_(novel)" class="extiw" title="w:Company (novel)">Company</a></i> (2006), <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-51439-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-51439-5">ISBN 0-385-51439-5</a>, p. 148</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The most <a href="/wiki/Optimistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Optimistic">optimistic</a> ethics have all begun by emphasizing the element of <a href="/wiki/Failure" title="Failure">failure</a> involved in the condition of man; without failure, no ethics; for a being who, from the very start, would be an exact co-incidence with himself, in a perfect plenitude, the notion of having-to-be would have no <a href="/wiki/Meaning" title="Meaning">meaning</a>. <b>One does not offer an ethics to a <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. It is impossible to propose any to man if one defines him as <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>, as something given.</b> The so-called psychological or empirical ethics manage to establish themselves only by introducing surreptitiously some flaw within the manthing which they have first defined. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir" title="Simone de Beauvoir">Simone de Beauvoir</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Ambiguity" class="extiw" title="w:The Ethics of Ambiguity">The Ethics of Ambiguity</a></i> (1947)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We have all learned to become sensitive to the physical <a href="/wiki/Environment" class="mw-redirect" title="Environment">environment</a> … Perhaps fewer of us are sensitive to what we might call the <a href="/wiki/Moral" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral">moral</a> or ethical environment.</b> This is the surrounding climate of <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a> about how to <a href="/wiki/Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Live">live</a>. It determines what we find acceptable or unacceptable, admirable or contemptible. It determines our conception of when things are going well and when they are going badly. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Blackburn" title="Simon Blackburn">Simon Blackburn</a>, <i>Being Good</i> (2001)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a> for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a> … Ethics is disturbing.</b> We are often vaguely uncomfortable when we think of such things as exploitation of the world's resources, or the way our comforts are provided by the miserable labour conditions of the third world … <b><a href="/wiki/Racists" class="mw-redirect" title="Racists">Racists</a> and sexists, like antebellum <a href="/wiki/Slave" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave">slave</a> owners in America, always have to tell themselves a <a href="/wiki/Story" title="Story">story</a> that justifies their <a href="/wiki/System" title="System">system</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Blackburn" title="Simon Blackburn">Simon Blackburn</a>, <i>Being Good</i> (2001)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>An ethic gone <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a> is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/concentration_camp" class="extiw" title="w:concentration camp">concentration camp</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/death_march" class="extiw" title="w:death march">death march</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Blackburn" title="Simon Blackburn">Simon Blackburn</a>, <i>Being Good</i> (2001)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The ethical <a href="/wiki/Decision" class="mw-redirect" title="Decision">decision</a> is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences — afraid that even the honorable choice could result in harm or loss or <a href="/wiki/Sorrow" title="Sorrow">sorrow</a> — that’s when ethics are involved.</b> <ul><li>Henry W. Bloch, in <i>The Importance of Ethics</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is one view that we can allow these <a href="/wiki/AI" class="mw-redirect" title="AI">AI</a> [tools] to deal with data and analytics and we let people deal with the <a href="/wiki/Caring" class="mw-redirect" title="Caring">caring</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Empathy" title="Empathy">empathy</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Emotional" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotional">emotional</a> aspects of <a href="/wiki/Care" class="mw-redirect" title="Care">care</a>, which I think is absolutely critical... What if technology is capable of high touch engagement? What if AI was also social and emotionally intelligent? For me when I talk about emotional engagement, it’s not just about great user experience with technology... It is about deeper human engagement to enable <a href="/wiki/Transformative" class="mw-redirect" title="Transformative">transformative</a> change in people’s lives... We have the world of design and we have the world of AI and right now those two aren’t built top of each other... But these have to come together. So we, through a lot of <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a>, understand how people are thinking about experiencing new <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Breazeal" title="Cynthia Breazeal">Cynthia Breazeal</a> quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/emotional-support-part-ais-future-healthcare">Is emotional support part of AI's future in healthcare? by Laura Lovett, <i>Healthcare IT News,</i></a> (10 November 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We need to be thinking more deeply around ethics ... particularly with <a href="/wiki/AI" class="mw-redirect" title="AI">AI</a> with children. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Breazeal" title="Cynthia Breazeal">Cynthia Breazeal</a> quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/01/08/teachers-the-robots-are-coming-but-thats.html">Teachers, the Robots Are Coming. But That's Not a Bad Thing, by By Kevin Bushweller, <i>Education Week</i>,</a> (7 January 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Poetry" title="Poetry">Poetry</a> is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the <a href="/wiki/Categorical_imperative" title="Categorical imperative">categorical imperative</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Cocteau" title="Jean Cocteau">Jean Cocteau</a>, in <i>Diary of an Unknown</i> (1988)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ethics is the triumph of freedom over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/facticity" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:facticity">facticity</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir" title="Simone de Beauvoir">Simone de Beauvoir</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Ambiguity" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Ethics of Ambiguity">The Ethics of Ambiguity</a></i>. Philosophical Library. 1948. p. 44. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8065-0160-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8065-0160-4">ISBN 978-0-8065-0160-4</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3AThe+Ethics+of+Ambiguity%7CThe+Ethics+of+Ambiguity%5D%5D&rft.date=1948&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B44&rft.pub=Philosophical+Library&rft.isbn=978-0-8065-0160-4&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Ethics"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Strong" class="mw-redirect" title="Strong">Strong</a> ethics keep corporations <a href="/wiki/Healthy" class="mw-redirect" title="Healthy">healthy</a>. Poor ethics make companies sick. <a href="/wiki/Values" class="mw-redirect" title="Values">Values</a> are the immune system of every organisation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Dixon" title="Patrick Dixon">Patrick Dixon</a>, in <i>Building a Better Business</i> (2005), p. 131</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>I <a href="/wiki/Believe" class="mw-redirect" title="Believe">believe</a>, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.</b> I am not thinking so much of the <a href="/wiki/Dangers" class="mw-redirect" title="Dangers">dangers</a> with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a "matter-of-fact" habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. … The frightful dilemma of the political world situation has much to do with this <a href="/wiki/Sin" title="Sin">sin</a> of omission on the part of our civilization. <b>Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, in "The Need for Ethical Culture" celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Culture" class="extiw" title="w:Ethical Culture">Ethical Culture Society</a> (5 January 1951)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One has a <a href="/wiki/Feeling" class="mw-redirect" title="Feeling">feeling</a> that one has a kind of <a href="/wiki/Home" title="Home">home</a> in this timeless <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">community</a> of human beings that strive for <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>. … I have always <a href="/wiki/Believed" class="mw-redirect" title="Believed">believed</a> that <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> meant by the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_God" title="Kingdom of God">Kingdom of God</a> the small group scattered all through <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> of <a href="/wiki/Intellectually" class="mw-redirect" title="Intellectually">intellectually</a> and ethically valuable <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, quoted in <i>Einstein's God — Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God</i> (1997) by Robert N. Goldman</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Psychoanalysis" title="Psychoanalysis">Psychoanalysis</a> ... should find a place among the methods whose aim is to bring about the highest ethical and <a href="/wiki/Intellectual" title="Intellectual">intellectual</a> development of the <a href="/wiki/Individual" class="mw-redirect" title="Individual">individual</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Sigmund Freud</a>, Letter number 80 to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jackson_Putnam" class="extiw" title="w:James Jackson Putnam">James Jackson Putnam</a>, March 30, 1914, in <i>James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis: Letters between Putnam and Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, William James, Sandor Ferenczi, and Morton Prince, 1877-1917</i> (Harvard University Press: 1971), p. 170</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The education of young people at the present day ... does not prepare them for the aggressiveness of which they are destined to become the objects. In sending the young out into life with such a false psychological orientation, education is behaving as though one were to equip people on a Polar expedition with summer clothing and maps of the Italian Lakes. In this it becomes evident that a certain misuse is being made of ethical demands. The strictness of those demands would not do so much harm if education were to say: 'This is how men ought to be, in order to be happy and to make others happy; but you have to reckon on their not being like that.' Instead of this the young are made to believe that everyone else fulfills those ethical demands -- that is, that everyone else is virtuous. It is on this that the demand is based that the young, too, shall become virtuous. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Sigmund Freud</a>, <i>Civilization and Its Discontents</i> (1930)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>“Ethical issues are the cornerstone of computer ethics in <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">cyberspace</a> and <a href="/wiki/Information_technology" title="Information technology">IT</a> <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hary_Gunarto" title="Hary Gunarto">Hary Gunarto</a>, cited in 'Security and Ethical Concerns on the Internet', Journal of Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture. Vol. 15, No.1. Kyoto, June 2003; and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.apu.ac.jp/~gunarto/it1.pdf">Ethical Issues in Cyberspace and IT Society.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The ethical as such is the universal, and as the universal it applies to everyone, which from another angle means that it applies at all times. It rests immanent in itself, has nothing outside itself that is its <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:τέλος">τέλος</a> but is itself the <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:τέλος">τέλος</a> for everything outside itself, and when the ethical has absorbed this into itself, it goes not further. The single individual, sensately and psychically qualified in immediacy, is the individual who has his <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:τέλος">τέλος</a> in the universal, and it is his ethical task continually to express himself in this, to annul his singularity in order to become the universal. As soon as the single individual asserts himself in his singularity before the universal, he sins, and only by acknowledging this can he be reconciled again with the universal. ... <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">Faith</a> [in contrast to the ethical] is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal ... so that after having been in the universal he as the single individual isolates himself as higher than the universal. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Søren Kierkegaard</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Fear_and_Trembling" title="Fear and Trembling">Fear and Trembling</a></i> (1843), as translated by H. Hong and E. Hong (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University_Press" class="extiw" title="w:Princeton University Press">Princeton University Press</a>: 1983), pp. 54-55</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It's never a matter of ethics versus pragmatism; it's a question of which informs the other. Humans have shown themselves capable of almost unlimited imagination and innovation—qualities that could be said to define human beings. People have used this capacity to do both great good and great harm. The point is that when humans set their minds to doing something, it's frequently possible. It makes sense to first ask what people want to do and why, from an ethical standpoint, and then get to the pragmatic how-to questions. The very process of asking what's right is how people fill out ethics in praxis, to meet new demands and dilemmas, new social conditions and contexts. Anarchism, then, brings an egalitarian ethics out into the world, making it transparent, public, and shared. It maintains an ethical orientation, while continually trying to put such notions into practice, as flawed as the effort might be. When other people come into contact with this ethical compass, they will hopefully "get it" and incorporate the same values into their lives, because it works. It offers directionality to political involvement and buttresses people's efforts to remake society. It turns surviving into thriving. That's the crucial difference between a pragmatic versus ethical impulse: people, in cooperative concert, qualitatively transform one another's lives. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cindy_Milstein" title="Cindy Milstein">Cindy Milstein</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA48">Anarchism and Its Aspirations</a></i>. AK Press. 1 May 2010. pp. 48-49. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7">ISBN 978-1-84935-029-7</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anarchism+and+Its+Aspirations&rft.date=1+May+2010&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B48-49&rft.pub=AK+Press&rft.isbn=978-1-84935-029-7&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FAnarchism_and_Its_Aspirations%2FFQLRDgAAQBAJ%3Fhl%3Den-419%26gbpv%3D1%26pg%3DPA48&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Ethics"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Ethics" isn't some fixed entity but rather the continual questioning of what it means to be a good person in a good society. It draws from the classical triad of philosophy's aspirations: the good, the true, and the beautiful. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cindy_Milstein" title="Cindy Milstein">Cindy Milstein</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA49">Anarchism and Its Aspirations</a></i>. AK Press. 1 May 2010. pp. 49-50. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7">ISBN 978-1-84935-029-7</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anarchism+and+Its+Aspirations&rft.date=1+May+2010&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B49-50&rft.pub=AK+Press&rft.isbn=978-1-84935-029-7&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FAnarchism_and_Its_Aspirations%2FFQLRDgAAQBAJ%3Fhl%3Den-419%26gbpv%3D1%26pg%3DPA49&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Ethics"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>After three and a half centuries I have found, for an empirical ethics, no better starting axiom than this: cruelty and evil are virtually synonyms. Human ethical teachers have insisted over the ages that a cruel act is an evil act, and men on the whole endorse the doctrine no matter how repeatedly they violate it. There is inevitable revulsion against any blatant attempt to make cruelty a law of behavior. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Pangborn" title="Edgar Pangborn">Edgar Pangborn</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mirror_for_Observers" class="extiw" title="w:A Mirror for Observers">A Mirror for Observers</a></i> (1954), Part Two, Chapter 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If you’re interested in ethics, you could do worse than think in terms of geological time. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Pangborn" title="Edgar Pangborn">Edgar Pangborn</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mirror_for_Observers" class="extiw" title="w:A Mirror for Observers">A Mirror for Observers</a></i> (1954), Part Two, Chapter 6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>An adequate theory of value should be as true in the gas chambers of <a href="/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz</a> as in the philosopher’s study. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Pearce_(philosopher)" title="David Pearce (philosopher)">David Pearce</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.hedweb.com/quora/2015.html">"Some Quora Answers by David Pearce"</a> (2015/2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Q">Q</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Q"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ethics is one of those hard things to <a href="/wiki/Teach" class="mw-redirect" title="Teach">teach</a> because for a lot of people the <a href="/wiki/Answers" class="mw-redirect" title="Answers">answers</a> are very personal. If you make it about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial" class="extiw" title="w:Artificial">artificial</a> <a href="/wiki/Examples" class="mw-redirect" title="Examples">examples</a> at first, then it allows people to <a href="/wiki/Think" class="mw-redirect" title="Think">think</a> a little bit more <a href="/wiki/Safely" class="mw-redirect" title="Safely">safely</a> and clearly about ethical issues. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Robichaud" class="extiw" title="w:Christopher Robichaud">Christopher Robichaud</a> as qtd in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-10900068">“Teaching philosophy with Spider-Man”</a>, by Katie Connolly, <i>BBC News</i>, (12 August 2010)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, in <i>Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays</i> (1918), Ch. 6: "On the Scientific Method in Philosophy", p. 108</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a>, namely, that <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a>, in <i>Kulturphilosophie</i> (1923), Vol. 2 : Civilization and Ethics</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they <a href="/wiki/Believed" class="mw-redirect" title="Believed">believed</a> themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is <a href="/wiki/Sacred" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacred">sacred</a> to him, and that of <a href="/wiki/Plants" title="Plants">plants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Animals" title="Animals">animals</a> as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in <a href="/wiki/Need" title="Need">need</a> of <a href="/wiki/Help" title="Help">help</a>. Only the <a href="/wiki/Universal" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal">universal</a> ethic of the feeling of <a href="/wiki/Responsibility" title="Responsibility">responsibility</a> in an ever-widening sphere for all that lives — only that ethic can be founded in <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a>. … The ethic of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverence_for_Life" class="extiw" title="w:Reverence for Life">Reverence for Life</a>, therefore, comprehends within itself everything that can be described as <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, devotion, and <a href="/wiki/Sympathy" title="Sympathy">sympathy</a> whether in <a href="/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering">suffering</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Effort" title="Effort">effort</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a>, in <i>Out of My Life and Thought, An Autobiography</i> (1933), as translated by C. T. Campion, Ch. 13, p. 188</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a> — it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>. It <i>is</i> religion. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer</a>, quoted in <i>Albert Schweitzer : The Man and His Mind</i> (1947) by George Seaver, p. 366</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I suddenly felt insecure and feared becoming an employee of some firm that would turn me into a corporate slave with "work ethics" (whenever I hear the word <i>work ethics</i> I interpret <i>inefficient mediocrity</i>). <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb" title="Nassim Nicholas Taleb">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>, <i>Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets</i> (2001) Seven: The Problem of Induction | Sir Karl's Promoting Agent</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ethical man accords his profession to his beliefs, instead of according his beliefs to his profession. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb" title="Nassim Nicholas Taleb">Nassim Nicholas Taleb</a>, <i>The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms</i> (2010) Ethics, p. 66.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethics&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/220px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/330px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/440px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">World</a> and <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a> are one. … Ethics and <a href="/wiki/Aesthetics" title="Aesthetics">Aesthetics</a> are one. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein" title="Ludwig Wittgenstein">Ludwig Wittgenstein</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>It is above all the impersonal and economically rationalized (but for this very reason ethically irrational) character of purely commercial relationships that evokes the suspicion, never clearly expressed but all the more strongly felt, of ethical religions. For every purely personal relationship of man to man, of whatever sort and even including complete enslavement, may be subjected to ethical requirements and ethically regulated. This is true because the structures of these relationships depend upon the individual wills of the participants, leaving room in such relations for manifestations of the virtue of charity. But this is not the situation in the realm of economically rationalised relationships, where personal control is exercised in inverse ratio to the degree of rational differentiation of the economic structure. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Max_Weber" title="Max Weber">Max Weber</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sociology_of_Religion_(book)" title="Sociology of Religion (book)">Sociology of Religion</a></i> (1922), pp. 216-217</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>“I want to be good. I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”<br />“A very charming artistic basis for ethics, Dorian! I congratulate you on it.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, Dorian and Lord Henry, <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>, ch. 8, p. 82</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">World</a> and <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">Life</a> are one.</b> Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is <a href="/wiki/Psychological" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychological">psychological</a> life. <b>Life is the world.</b> <br /> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ethics</a> does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like <a href="/wiki/Logic" title="Logic">logic</a>. <br /> <b>Ethics and <a href="/wiki/Aesthetics" title="Aesthetics">Aesthetics</a> are one.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein" title="Ludwig Wittgenstein">Ludwig Wittgenstein</a>, in Journal entry (24 July 1916), p. 77e, <i>Notebooks 1914-1916</i>, as translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._M._Anscombe" class="extiw" title="w:G. E. M. 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href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_geography&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of geography (page does not exist)">Geography</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_happiness&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of happiness (page does not exist)">Happiness</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_history&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of history (page does not exist)">History</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophical_anthropology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophical anthropology (page does not exist)">Human nature</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Theories_of_humor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Theories of humor (page does not exist)">Humor</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Feminist_philosophy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Feminist philosophy (page does not exist)">Feminism</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_language&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of language (page does not exist)">Language</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of law (page does not exist)">Law</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_life&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of life (page does not exist)">Life</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_and_literature&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy and literature (page does not exist)">Literature</a> • <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics" title="Philosophy of mathematics">Mathematics</a> • <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy of medicine">Medicine</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_healthcare&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of healthcare (page does not exist)">Healthcare</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_psychiatry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of psychiatry (page does not exist)">Psychiatry</a> • <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind" title="Philosophy of mind">Mind</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pain_(philosophy)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pain (philosophy) (page does not exist)">Pain</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_psychology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of psychology (page does not exist)">Psychology</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_perception&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of perception (page does not exist)">Perception</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Metaphilosophy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Metaphilosophy (page does not exist)">Philosophy</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of religion (page does not exist)">Religion</a> • <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_science" title="Philosophy of science">Science</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_physics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of physics (page does not exist)">Physics</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_chemistry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of chemistry (page does not exist)">Chemistry</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_biology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of biology (page does not exist)">Biology</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_sex&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of sex (page does not exist)">Sexuality</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_social_science&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of social science (page does not exist)">Social science</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_business&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of business (page does not exist)">Business</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_culture&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of culture (page does not exist)">Culture</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_and_economics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy and economics (page does not exist)">Economics</a> • <a href="/wiki/Political_philosophy" title="Political philosophy">Politics</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Social_philosophy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Social philosophy (page does not exist)">Society</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_space_and_time&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of space and time (page does not exist)">Space and time</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_sport&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of sport (page does not exist)">Sport</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_technology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of technology (page does not exist)">Technology</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_artificial_intelligence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of artificial intelligence (page does not exist)">Artificial intelligence</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_computer_science&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of computer science (page does not exist)">Computer science</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_engineering&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of engineering (page does not exist)">Engineering</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_information&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of information (page does not exist)">Information</a> • <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_war&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philosophy of war (page does not exist)">War</a> </small> </td></tr> <tr> <td>By era </td> <td><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_philosophy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ancient philosophy 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