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environmental ethics. medical ethics. 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. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.)
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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Applied Ethics as Distinct from Normative Ethics and Metaethics. Business Ethics. Corporate Social Responsibility. Corporations and Moral Agency. Deception in Business. Multinational Enterprises. Bioethics. Beginning of Life Issues, including Abortion. End of Life Issues. Research, Patients, Populations, and Access. Moral Standing and Personhood.
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.
problems for the ethics of process—difficulties in ascribing RESPONSIBILITY. Here the difficulty is not which principles to apply, but which agents to apply them to. Like any kind of morality, political ethics assumes that the persons whom it judges can be responsible for the actions for which they are judged. But the structure of
In contrast to traditional ethical theory—concerned with purely theoretical problems such as, for example, the development of a general criterion of rightness—applied ethics takes its point of departure in practical normative challenges.
