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The Encyclopedia of Ethics is a scholarly work with the original focus on ethical theory. It is published by Routledge press. It includes "biographical articles, entries on areas and issues related to ethics, treatment of major traditions in religious ethics, coverage of applied ethical issues of importance to theory, survey articles on the history of ethics, and information on the current status of philosophical ethics world wide."[1]
The editors in chief of the three-volume second edition of this Encyclopedia are Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker. Routledge press states that the second editions is written by 325 distinguished scholars(See [1]) and contains nearly 600 signed, peer-reviewed articles.
Encyclopædia Iranica is a project in Columbia Universitys Center for Iranian studies, to create an English language encyclopedia about Iran and Persia. ...
Ethics is pre-eminently practical and directive; for it orders the activity of the will, and the latter it is which sets all the other faculties of man in motion.
Ethics is distinguished from the other natural sciences which deal with moral conduct of man, as jurisprudence and pedagogy, in this, that the latter do not ascend to first principles, but borrow their fundamental notions from ethics, and are therefore subordinate to it.
As ethics is the philosophical treatment of the moral order, its history does not consist in narrating the views of morality entertained by different nations at differnt times; this is properly the scope of the history of civilisation, and of ethnology.
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