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The application of normative theories and standards to practical moral problems is the concern of applied ethics. This subdiscipline of ethics deals with many major issues of the contemporary scene, including human rights, social equality, and the moral implications of scientific research, for example in the area of genetic engineering.
- Metaethics
Metaethics, the subdiscipline of ethics concerned with the...
- Deontological
deontological ethics, in philosophy, ethical theories that...
- Teleological
teleological ethics, (teleological from Greek telos, “end”;...
- Business Ethics
business ethics, branch of applied ethics that studies the...
- Applied Ethics
applied ethics, the application of normative ethical...
- Virtue Ethics
virtue ethics, Approach to ethics that takes the notion of...
- Metaethics
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.
- Mark Dimmock, Andrew Fisher
- 2017
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Examples of Applied Ethics. When a doctor decides who gets a new medicine when there’s not much of it, that’s medical ethics because they are using fairness and care to choose. If a business has to pick between making more money or keeping their workers from getting hurt, that’s business ethics since they’re balancing success with ...
We will organize this chapter around two meta-ethical issues. We will consider whether or not there are any ethical truths and, if so, what makes them true or explains their truth. This page titled 6.1.1: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, and Meta-Ethics is shared under a CC BY-NC license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Russ W. Payne.
1. Applied Ethics as Distinct from Normative Ethics and Metaethics. One way of categorizing the field of ethics (as a study of morality) is by distinguishing between its three branches, one of them being applied ethics. By contrasting applied ethics with the other branches, one can get a better understanding what exactly applied ethics is about.
Applied ethics is an area of moral philosophy that focuses on concrete moral issues, including such matters as abortion, capital punishment, civil disobedience, drug use, family responsibilities, and professional ethics. This article defends a variety of positions in both normative moral theory and metaethics.
