Biotic ethicsBiotic ethics (also called life-centered ethics) is a branch of ethics that values not only species and biospheres, but life itself. On this basis, biotic ethics defines a human purpose to secure and propagate life. These principles are related to bioethics, and to environmental ethics that seek to conserve existing species. However, biotic ethics value more generally organic gene/protein life itself, the structures and processes shared by all the biota. These processes result in self-propagation, an effective purpose that humans share with all life.
Primum non nocerePrimum non nocere est une locution latine qui signifie : ou . C'est le premier principe de prudence appris aux étudiants en médecine, médecine dentaire, médecine vétérinaire, science maïeutique, science infirmière et pharmacie. Parfois on rapporte l'expression « primum nil nocere ». L'origine de cette locution est incertaine. Elle ne se trouve pas dans le Serment d'Hippocrate de façon explicite, le passage qui pourrait s'en rapprocher est (traduction Littré). Cependant le texte grec original présente une ambiguïté.
Contemporary ethicsEthics is, in general terms, the study of right and wrong. It can look descriptively at moral behaviour and judgements; it can give practical advice (normative ethics), or it can analyse and theorise about the nature of morality and ethics. Contemporary study of ethics has many links with other disciplines in philosophy itself and other sciences. Normative ethics has declined, while meta-ethics is increasingly followed. Abstract theorizing has in many areas been replaced by experience-based research.
