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5 days ago · The most common examples of normative ethical theories are utilitarianism, Kantian duty-based ethics (deontology), and divine command theory, which are described later in this chapter. These systems are used by individuals to make decisions when confronted with ethical dilemmas.
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5 days ago · Become more able to defend, and not just coherently state, one's own position with regard to controversial questions in normative ethics; Have acquired a background for one's own further philosophical reflection on morality; Work individually, and in groups, to create and test arguments.
4 days ago · 1. The goal and the materials. To all appearances, the kinds of acts that constitute paradigmatic exercises of what philosophers, following Raz, have come to call ‘normative powers’ – the kinds of acts constituting, for instance, the making of a promise or the giving of a permission – bring about changes in people’s deontic situation in ways that makes these changes responsive in a ...
1 day ago · I’ve recently argued that these ideas impugn practices like diet culture that lead to people making and keeping themselves hungry, for example, and violating their bodily imperatives out of a false sense of moral obligation to be thin. So this is a metaethics with strong normative implications, unlike some—for better or worse.
1 day ago · Normative ethics which examines and produces normative ethical judgments; Applied ethics, which investigates how existing normative principles should be applied to difficult or borderline cases, often cases created by new technology or new scientific knowledge. Meta-ethics. As well as Hume's famous is/ought distinction, twentieth-century meta ...
1 day ago · APPLIED ETHICS The term refers to the application of normative ethics. It proposes that right and wrong can be found within scenarios and in particular issues of practical concerns. Examples: Bioethics, Social Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Business Ethics, Christian Ethics, etc. NORMATIVE ETHICS The study of ethical actions. Investigates the ...
3 days ago · Virtue ethics refers to a collection of normative ethical philosophies that place an emphasis on being rather than doing. Another way of saying this is that morality comes from the identity or character of an individual rather than being a reflection of actions of the individual.
