ethical egoism See EGOISM.

ethical eudaimonism See EUDAIMONISM.

ethical hedonism See HEDONISM.

ethical intuitionism See ETHICS.

ethical naturalism See ETHICS, MORAL REALISM,. NATURALIS.

ethical nihilism See RELATIVISM.

ethical objectivism the view that the objects of the most basic concepts...

ethical pragmatism See MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY.

ethical relativism See RELATIVISM.

ethical skepticism See RELATIVISM.

ethics the philosophical study of morality. The word is also commonly...

ethics, autonomy of See ETHICS.

ethics, deontological See ETHICS.

ethics, divine command See DIVINE COMMAND. ETHIC.

ethics, environmental See ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOS-. OPH.

ethics, evolutionary See PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY.

ethics, teleological See ETHICS.

ethics of belief See CLIFFORD.

ethics of love See DIVINE COMMAND ETHICS.

ethnography an open-ended family of techniques through which anthropologists investigate cultures;...

ethnology the comparative and analytical study of cultures; cultural anthroplogy. Anthropologists...

ethnomethodology a phenomenological approach to interpreting everyday action and speech in...

Eucken, Rudolf See LEBENSPHILOSOPHIE.

Euclid See EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY.

Euclidean geometry the version of geometry that includes among its axioms the...

eudaimonia See ARISTOTLE, EUDAIMONISM.

eudaimonism (from Greek eudaimonia, 'happiness', 'flourishing'), the ethical doctrine that happiness...

Eudoxus of Cnidus (c.408–c.355 B.C.), Greek astronomer and mathematician, a student of Plato....

Euler diagram a logic diagram invented by the mathematician Euler that represents...

euthanasia broadly, the beneficent timing or negotiation of the death of...