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Jan 2, 2008 · 1. The Concepts of Beneficence and Benevolence. 2. The Place of Beneficence in the History of Ethical Theory. 2.1 Hume’s Theory. 2.2 Mill’s Theory. 2.3 Kant’s Theory. 3. Is Beneficent Action Obligatory or Merely a Moral Ideal? 4. The Problem of Over-Demanding Beneficence. 5. Liberty-Limiting Beneficence: The Problem of Benefit Paternalism. 6.
A number of textbooks cover a wide variety of subjects within applied ethics, for example, Harris 1985, Oderberg 2000, and Singer 1979.
Practical Ethics, sometimes called Moral Philosophy or Applied Ethics, is a branch of philosophy that has developed out of the study of Ethics, and aims to examine and define principles for moral behaviour and apply them to real world scenarios.
