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Dominic Roser. Normative ethics, that branch of moral philosophy, or ethics, concerned with criteria of what is right and wrong. It includes the formulation of moral rules that have implications for what human actions, institutions, and ways of life should be like. It is usually contrasted with theoretical ethics and applied ethics.
- Metaethics
Metaethics, the subdiscipline of ethics concerned with the...
- Deontological
deontological ethics, in philosophy, ethical theories that...
- Teleological
teleological ethics, (teleological from Greek telos, “end”;...
- Business Ethics
business ethics, branch of applied ethics that studies the...
- Applied Ethics
Applied ethics, the application of normative ethical...
- Virtue Ethics
virtue ethics, Approach to ethics that takes the notion of...
- Normative Ethics
Ethics - Morality, Values, Principles: Normative ethics...
- Metaethics
- Utilitarianism: A Consequentialist, “Ends Justifies Means” Approach. The utilitarianism principle basically holds that an action is morally right if it produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
- Universalism: A Duty-Based Approach. Universalism is a principle that considers the welfare and risks of all parties when considering policy decisions and outcomes.
- Rights: A Moral and Legal Entitlement–Based Approach. This principle is grounded in both legal and moral rights. Legal rights are entitlements that are limited to a particular legal system and jurisdiction.
- Justice: Procedures, Compensation, and Retribution. This principle has at least four major components that are based on the tenets that (1) all individuals should be treated equally; (2) justice is served when all persons have equal opportunities and advantages (through their positions and offices) to society’s opportunities and burdens; (3) fair decision practices, procedures, and agreements among parties should be practiced; and (4) punishment is served to someone who has inflicted harm on another, and compensation is given to those for a past harm or injustice committed against them.
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Ethics essentially involves how we act, live, lead our lives, and treat others. Our choices and decision-making processes and our moral principles and values that govern our behaviors regarding what is right and wrong are also part of ethics. 1. Normative ethics refers to the field of ethics concerned with our asking how should and ought we ...
Dec 10, 2021 · The title of this chapter, Normative Ethics and Business Practice, links the notion of ethical to a norm for management, i.e. a standard management aspires to meet. This is hardly a surprising linkage since of course we want business to meet, at minimum, the moral standards of society. This book argues that standard economics has generally ...
- Richard M. Robinson
For example, Kenneth Goodpaster distinguishes non-normative “strategic stakeholder synthesis” from normative “multi-fiduciary stakeholder synthesis.” Kenneth E. Goodpaster, “Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis,” 1 Business Ethics Quarterly 53 (1991). Recently, Thomas Donaldson and Lee Preston have further clarified the ...
- John Hasnas
- 1998
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. Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics in that the former examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, whereas the latter studies the meaning of moral ...
