To a problem of development and functioning of English terminology of ethics
The present paper is devoted to the studying of English terminology of ethics, its originality and important features as a humanitarian terminological system in which it is possible to allocate the following features: non-systematization, expressed in a considerable amount of synonyms, homonyms and multiple-valued terms, illegibility of notion borders, expressed by terms, and also openness and heterogeneity of the termino-system as a whole that explains its close interrelation with common-literary lexicon and terminosystems of interdisciplinary sciences.