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- The normative ethicist is like a referee interested in the rules governing play. What interests him is the general theories that govern our moral behavior; how do we work out what is right and what is wrong? The metaethicist is like a football commentator. What interests her is how the very practice of ethics works.
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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.
- Metaethics
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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.
- Mark Dimmock, Andrew Fisher
- Church Hill, TN
- 2017
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.
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.
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 language and the metaphysics of moral facts.
Normative ethics focuses on establishing norms and standards of moral conduct for effectively guiding our behavior. A normative moral theory is a systematized account of morality that addresses important questions related to effectively guiding moral conduct.
The Three Main Branches of the Philosophical Study of Ethics. 1. Meta-ethics. 2. Normative Ethics. 3. Applied Ethics. 1. B. Meta-ethics consists in the attempt to answer the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of ethical theory itself.