this research is a new attempt in order to study the effect of evolution theory in the dimension of empirical ethics. in the contemporary area the evolutionary ethics is in the three branches: descriptive, prescriptive and meta-ethics. the descriptive evolutionary ethics tries to modify human’s ethical believes in the evolutionary aspect and achieves more share from two others part in this grou...

BACKGROUND The value of ethics education have been questioned. Therefore we did a student survey on attitudes about the teaching of ethics in Swedish medical schools. METHODS Questionnaire survey on attitudes to ethics education with 409 Swedish medical students participating. We analyzed > 8000 words of open-ended responses and multiple-choice questions using classic grounded theory procedur...

Background: The science of ethics is one of the most complete basic sciences that human beings urgently need, because the subject of knowledge of ethics is the human soul and its inner construction. The moral thinking of the thinkers of the Frankfurt School, as one of the ideas of the twentieth century, is based on the ethics of virtue; because the moral act is known as the act which is the res...

BACKGROUND The principles of biomedical ethics - autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice - are of paradigmatic importance for framing ethical problems in medicine and for teaching ethics to medical students and professionals. In order to underline this significance, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress base the principles in the common morality, i.e. they claim that the principle...