Encyclopedia of Ethics

{{Short description|Scholarly work focused on ethical theory}}

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The Encyclopedia of Ethics is a scholarly work with the original focus on ethical theory.{{Cite book|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203952948/encyclopedia-ethics-lawrence-becker-charlotte-becker|title=Encyclopedia of Ethics|year=2013 |editor-first1=Lawrence C.|editor-last1=Becker|editor-first2=Charlotte B.|editor-last2=Becker|doi=10.4324/9780203952948|isbn=9781135350963 }} It is published by Routledge and 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 worldwide."{{cite journal |author=Robert Baird |title=Review. Encyclopedia of Ethics |journal=Journal of Church and State |date=Summer 1993 |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=632–633 |doi=10.1093/jcs/35.3.632}}

The editors in chief of the three-volume second edition of this Encyclopedia are Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker.{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2381639 | jstor=2381639 | last1=Singer | first1=Peter | title=Reviewed work: Encyclopedia of Ethics, Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker | journal=Ethics | year=1993 | volume=103 | issue=4 | pages=807–810 | doi=10.1086/293554 }}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/293554|title=Encyclopedia of Ethics . Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker|first=Peter|last=Singer|date=July 23, 1993|journal=Ethics|volume=103|issue=4|pages=807–810|doi=10.1086/293554}}