normative ethics

study of ethical action; branch of philosophical ethics that investigates questions about how one morally ought to act and examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions
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normative ethics

Summary

normative ethics is a branch of philosophy[1]. It draws 401 Wikipedia views per month (branch_of_philosophy category, ranking #17 of 63).[2]

Key Facts

  • normative ethics's instance of is recorded as branch of philosophy[3].
  • normative ethics's part of is recorded as ethics[4].
  • normative ethics's Commons category is recorded as Normative ethics[5].
  • normative ethics's opposite of is recorded as positive economics[6].
  • normative ethics's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04j8237[7].
  • normative ethics's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph705693[8].
  • normative ethics's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Normative ethics[9].
  • normative ethics's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 170.44[10].
  • normative ethics's PSH ID is recorded as 2761[11].
  • normative ethics's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/normative-ethics[12].
  • normative ethics's PhilPapers topic is recorded as normative-ethics[13].
  • normative ethics's Quora topic ID is recorded as Normative-Ethics[14].
  • normative ethics's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as normative-ethics[15].
  • normative ethics's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16].
  • normative ethics's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 198626708[17].
  • normative ethics's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C198626708[18].
  • normative ethics's TUBITAK Sosyal Bilimler Ansiklopedisi ID is recorded as normatif_teori[19].

Body

Publication

normative ethics's part of is recorded as ethics[4].

Why It Matters

normative ethics draws 401 Wikipedia views per month (branch_of_philosophy category, ranking #17 of 63).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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