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      • Normative ethics is the branch of philosophy that focuses on establishing moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct. There are three main types of normative ethics philosophies: deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics.
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  2. normative ethics, that branch of moral philosophy, or ethics, concerned with criteria of what is morally right and wrong. It includes the formulation of moral rules that have direct implications for what human actions, institutions, and ways of life should be like.

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  3. 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 how the game is played.

    • Mark Dimmock, Andrew Fisher
    • 2017
  4. May 10, 2023 · Normative ethics is the branch of philosophy that focuses on establishing moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct. There are three main types of normative ethics philosophies: deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics.

  5. 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.

  6. Normative ethics is the study of ethical behaviour and is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates questions regarding how one ought to act, in a moral sense.

  7. May 8, 2024 · A crucial question of normative ethics is whether actions are to be judged right or wrong solely on the basis of their consequences. Traditionally, theories that judge actions by their consequences were called “teleological,” and theories that judge actions by whether they accord with a certain rule were called “deontological.”

  8. There are three main approaches to normative moral theory: consequentialist, deontological, and virtue ethics. Each approach differs based on the criterion (consequences, duty, or character) used for determining moral conduct.