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- 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. Metaethics is the study of how we engage in ethics.
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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
- Church Hill, TN
- 2017
Introduction. Ethics is a branch of philosophy that explores moral principles, values, and judgments. Within the field of ethics, two major branches are often discussed: metaethics and normative ethics. While both branches delve into the realm of ethics, they focus on different aspects and questions.
It is typically contrasted with theoretical ethics, or metaethics, which is concerned with the nature rather than the content of ethical theories and moral judgments, and applied ethics, or the application of normative ethics to practical problems. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
Normative ethics and applied ethics are covered in separate chapters. Each field is distinguished by a different level of inquiry and analysis. Metaethics focuses on moral reasoning and foundational questions that explore the assumptions related to moral beliefs and practice.
Metaethics explores, for example, where moral values originate, what it means to say something is right or good, whether there are any objective moral facts, whether morality is (culturally) relative, and the psychological basis for moral practices and values. Normative ethics focuses on moral behavior, on what we should do.
