Applied Ethics
By Dr. Akash Garg, DC, MS, MBA, MEd · Updated October 20, 2026
The reasoning behind decisions that matter. Free to read, practice and play, with no sign-up.
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Chapters
- 1What Ethics Is, and What It Is NotThe Study of the Ought, Six Things Ethics Is Not, The Map of Moral Theory, The Working Vocabulary
- 2Moral Reasoning and ArgumentThe Anatomy of a Moral Argument, From Facts to Values: The Is-Ought Problem, Validity, Soundness and the Fallacies That Keep Coming Back
- 3Consequentialism and UtilitarianismThe Core Idea and Its Machinery, What Counts as a Good Outcome, Act, Rule and the Problem of Uncertainty
- 4Deontology and the Ethics of DutyWhy Outcomes Are Not the Whole Story, Kant: The Good Will and the Categorical Imperative, Duties, Conflicts and W.D. Ross
- 5Virtue Ethics and CharacterFrom the Act to the Agent, Aristotle’s Machinery: Habit, Mean, Wisdom, Character Beyond Athens
- 6Care Ethics, Rights and JusticeThe Ethics of Care, What a Right Actually Is, Justice: The Formal Idea and Its Rivals
- 7Relativism, Objectivity and Moral DisagreementFive Things People Mean by “It’s All Relative”, The Argument From Disagreement, and Why It Fails, Objectivity Without Absolutism
- 8Bioethics: The Four PrinciplesWhere the Four Principles Came From, Respect for Autonomy, Nonmaleficence and Beneficence
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- 9Consent, Confidentiality and the End of LifeHow Consent Became a Duty, The Anatomy of a Valid Consent, Capacity, Surrogates and Planning Ahead
- 10Professional and Business EthicsWhat a Profession Is, and What It Asks of You, Codes, Licensure and the Machinery of Accountability, Conflicts of Interest: How Good People Drift
- 11Social Justice, Equity and DiscriminationEquality, Equity and the Shape of Structural Injustice, What Discrimination Is, and Why It Is Wrong, The Gradient: Equity Where It Is Measured Best
- 12Environmental and Animal EthicsWho Counts? Drawing the Moral Circle, Animals in Laboratories, Farms and Fisheries, Climate Change: Harm Across Distance and Time
- 13Technology, Data and Artificial IntelligenceWhy Technology Is Never Neutral, Privacy, Data and the Myth of Consent, Bias in the Machine
- 14Building an Ethical PracticeThe Distance Between Knowing and Doing, A Method You Can Actually Use, Moral Courage: Saying It Out Loud, in a Hierarchy
Written by Dr. Akash Garg
Doctor of Chiropractic, MS in Pharmacology, MS in Management and Leadership, MBA, and MEd degrees in Chemistry, English, Higher Education and Learning Experience Design. Teaching college science since 2007.