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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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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 ...
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.
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 ...
4 days ago · In the main senses used in this book, ethics refers to normative ethics, which aims at identifying, understanding, and applying justified moral values. Moral values include what is obligatory (right), permissible (all right), good, or otherwise morally valuable.
3 days ago · The beginnings of virtue ethics can trace their roots to the Classical Greek works of Plato and Aristotle. In the West, virtue ethics was the prevailing approach to ethical thinking in ancient and medieval times. Virtue ethics refers to a collection of normative ethical philosophies that place an emphasis on being rather than doing.
1 day ago · An internal nth-order norm \(N^n\) might assert that a sufficient condition for an option O to be rationally permissible is that (i) O satisfies some condition \(\varphi\) that makes reference only to the agent’s non-normative beliefs and her normative beliefs of order less than n and (ii) the agent has sufficient credence (e.g. certainty, or ...
