Tax law is a branch of public law

Philosophy: means love of wisdom from the greek words philia and sophia.

Ethics: the study of morality and what is goos, bad, right and worng human conduct and behavior in a moral sense.

Morality: means what is good or right.

Good or right: should involve pleasure, happiness, and excellence and also lead to harmony and creativity.

Bad or wrong: will involve pain, unhapiness, and lack of excellence and will lead to disharmony and lack of creativity.

Hedonism: the view of what is good traditionally

Excellence: is an important addition to pleasure or satisfaction in that it makes experiences or activities better or worse than they would otherwise be.

Amoral: means having no moral sense or being indifferent to right and wrong.

Nonmoral: means out of the realm of morality altogether.

Law: is a public expression of and provides a sanction for social morality

Religious morality; is concerned with human beings in relationship to a supernatural being or beings.

Hapiness: in terms of living a good life,

or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.

Pleasure: is the only intrinsic good.

Consequentialism:  ethical theories that are

concerned with the consequences of actions or

rules

Metaethics: means beyond or above ethics, is

the 2 type of ethics.

Objective: outside of or external to human

beings rather than within them

Subjective: coming form within human beings

rather than oustide of them.

Psychological egoism is the view that humans

are always motivated by self-interest, even in

what seem to be acts of altruism.

Selfishness: Lack of empathy has been seen as

one of the roots of selfishness, extending as far

as the cold manipulation of the psychopath

Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position

that moral agents ought to do what is in their

own self-interest.

Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative

ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about 

morality.

Normative ethics is the study of ethical action.

It is the branch of philosophicalethics that

investigates the set of questions that arise when

considering how one ought to act, morally speaking. 

Utilitarianism is a theory in normative ethics

holding that the proper course of action is the

one that maximizes utility, usually defined as

maximizing happiness and reducing suffering.