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Axiology is the study of the good. It's just confusing to name it "ethics" when there's a perfectly good, more specific word to apply. I may write an entire post on this and similar vocabulary failures soon.
Ethics is a subfield of axiology, the study of the good life instead of the good state or something else.
That's how Aristotle approached it; not all ethicists do.
That's the standard conceptual hierarchy. In any case, I was talking about Aristotle. If your point is "you should have been more clear", fair enough. Otherwise I don't really know what we're talking about or why I'm getting voted down.