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2 days ago · Normative ethics is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the set questions that arise when considering how to act. Normative ethics deals with the standards for the rightness or wrongness of actions. Normative ethics is sometimes called prescriptive rather than descriptive.
3 days ago · In fact, the philosophy of law was, alongside ethics, an integral part of moral philosophy as a whole. We only have to remember, for example, Kant, Fichte, or even Hegel. In a brief presentation, it is impossible to describe the many factors that led to philosophy’s current confinement to mainly ethical issues.
3 days ago · Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics.
2 days ago · In this introduction to ethics, the philosophy of morality, we shall examine four important ethical theories (virtue ethics, deontology, expressivism and utilitarianism), applying them to two practical questions: the rights of animals and euthanasia.
4 days ago · For our purposes moral theory provides the justification for moral rules that require an agent, when placed in an ethical dilemma, to make judgments about a range of actions that have moral value, e.g., relative rightness or wrongness. (13) Moral theories in medicine include principles of patient autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and ...
1 day ago · Abstract. This chapter examines the concept of personality in private law. That we have such a concept is easily missed. We live in a time in which entrenched legal nominalism and moral anti-realism have generated fragmentary conceptions of personality. Some examine the concept in a reductionist way, equating legal personhood with possession of ...
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3 days ago · Social justice, in contemporary politics, social science, and political philosophy, the fair treatment and equitable status of all individuals and social groups within a state or society.
