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      • applied ethics, the application of normative ethical theories —i.e., philosophical theories regarding criteria for determining what is morally right or wrong, good or bad—to practical problems.
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  2. Applied ethics, the application of normative ethical theoriesi.e., philosophical theories regarding criteria for determining what is morally right or wrong, good or badto practical problems. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.)

  3. 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.

  4. Metaethics deals with whether morality exists. Normative ethics, usually assuming an affirmative answer to the existence question, deals with the reasoned construction of moral principles, and at its highest level, determines what the fundamental principle of morality is.

  5. The Applied Ethicists are like the players. They “get their hands [or feet] dirty”. They take the general rules of normative ethics and “play” under them. What interests them is how we should act in specific areas. For example, how should we deal with issues like meat-eating, euthanasia or stealing? (pp. 1–4) References. Fisher, A ...

    • Mark Dimmock, Andrew Fisher
    • Church Hill, TN
    • 2017
  6. Medical ethics, business ethics, engineering ethics, and the like are all branches of applied ethics. Applied ethics is more specific than normative ethics, which is a branch of philosophy that develops moral theories – such as the ethics of care or deontology – about how people should behave.

  7. In contrast to traditional ethical theory—concerned with purely theoretical problems such as, for example, the development of a general criterion of rightnessapplied ethics takes its point of departure in practical normative challenges.

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