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- Normative ethics asks how ought people to behave and why. Meta-ethics or metaphysics asks for rules for judging behaviors.
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Normative Ethics, Metaethics and Applied Ethics. What is the difference? Normative Ethics is focused on the creation of theories that provide general moral rules governing our behavior, such as Utilitarianism or Kantian Ethics. The normative ethicist, rather than being a football player, is more like a referee who sets up the rules governing ...
- Mark Dimmock, Andrew Fisher
- 2017
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Ethics is concerned with whether and how those ethical opinions can be reasonably justified. Normative ethics in particular is concerned with articulating and developing the general ethical theories in terms of which ethical opinions at the applied level might be justified.
- I. The Task of Developing A General Framework
- II. First Approximation: Descriptive, Normative, and Meta-Epistemologies
- III. Second Approximation: Pure Versus Applied Epistemologies
- IV. Third Approximation: Individual Versus Social Epistemology
The task of developing a general framework for medical epistemology might be initially posed as follows: casting our net broadly, we search diverse databases for articles and books on the topic. As we do this, we also keep in mind conditions under which knowledge is developed and used in medicine; for example, epistemic practices associated with ma...
As a first approximation, we might use a three-fold scheme similar to that often used for ethics, where descriptive, normative, and meta-ethics are distinguished. Medical epistemologies might then be subcategorized as follows: 1. Descriptive epistemology involves empirical investigation into how people come to know the things they know, and how the...
For our second effort at developing a general framework for organizing contributions to medical epistemology, we begin with a distinction between pure and applied epistemologies and focus on the kinds of knowledge deployed in medical epistemic practices. Classical epistemology has focused on cognitive content and has assumed that knowledge can be p...
Thus far we have developed epistemologies as if they concern what goes on in the heads and hearts of individuals. Individuals are the ones who reason and use information, and thus the ones who have knowledge of various kinds. But when an individual physician works up a patient’s problem as a biomedical disease, this isn’t an isolated event. That ph...
- George Khushf
- 2013
Normative ethics makes moral claims in its own right. Metaethics does not do this, yet, despite this, it is morally engaged. For among its central questions are the questions whether any moral claims are true, and whether it is rational to commit oneself to acting morally.
Meta-ethics. 2. Normative Ethics. 3. Applied Ethics. 1. B. Meta-ethics consists in the attempt to answer the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of ethical theory itself. Examples: 1. Are ethical statements such as "lying is wrong", or "friendship is good" true or false?
Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is.
