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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 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.

  4. Apr 24, 2023 · Normative ethics is the study of how people "should" act. Normative ethicists try to articulate what someone must do to act morally by developing their moral...

  5. Dec 10, 2020 · Traditionally, the study of ethics is normative – meaning that one is trying to discover how one ought to behave, not how people actually are behaving. This is why it is often said that it is hard to be ethical – to do the right thing – because frequently people do not act ethically.

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  6. Jun 27, 2022 · 1. Morality. When philosophers engage in moral theorizing, what is it that they are doing? Very broadly, they are attempting to provide a systematic account of morality. Thus, the object of moral theorizing is morality, and, further, morality as a normative system.

  7. Jul 12, 2022 · Examples are claims about what it would be good to do, or what would be praiseworthy or virtuous, or about beauty. Our reason for taking this broader view of the normative is that evaluative claims give rise to similar philosophical questions as do the claims we described as action-guiding.

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