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Leslie Allan. 2015. Meta-ethics is the area of philosophy in which thinkers explore the language and nature of moral discourse and its relations to other non-moral areas of life. In this introduction to the discipline written explicitly for novices, Leslie Allan outlines the key questions and areas of analysis in contemporary meta-ethics.
Jan 1, 2023 · Introduction. Theories of ethics provide frameworks from which to assess the probity of actions in a disinterested, consistent manner free from personal bias and self-interest. Public administration and public policy are often seen as practical disciplines, yet evaluations of ethical decision-making and good (not merely practical or efficient ...
Nov 8, 2019 · Ethics is one of the philosophical disciplines concerned with understanding human behavior in the context of morality. Sometimes ethics is also called moral philosophy. Concerning method, ethics can have a descriptive method in which “that what is” is described in the context of human moral behavior and a normative method in which “that ...
Metaethics. Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is. Just as two people may disagree about the ethics of, for example ...
Feb 18, 2023 · Sumner adds additional features of the subdiscipline of meta-ethics, that it is a second order study of the logic of normative sentences, that it unfolds and criticises the conditions for normative theory, and that it addresses an interest in matters of analysis and justification (1967, p. 101), but the most central feature is, however, the ...
Virtue Ethics is an ethical theory that places emphasis on the character of the moral agent. It is distinct from other ethical theories, such as utilitarianism and deontology, because it focuses on the development of the individual's character and understanding of the virtues that make up good character. This theory holds that a good and moral ...
Normative ethicists in the very early part of the twentieth century had not yet adopted a ‘scientizing’ attitude to philosophy. They believed, for example, that one could rely on intuition in formulating ethical theories. 1 Theorists in the early part of the century were also optimistic about the prospects of systematizing normative ethics in a way that would be faithful to our common ...
