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I. Normative Ethics: Normative ethical theory is the branch of philosophy concerned with formulating and evaluating theories of moral rightness and moral goodness. Such theories attempt to state the features in virtue of which morally right actions are morally right and morally good states of affairs are morally good.
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Normative ethics, that branch of moral philosophy, or ethics, concerned with criteria of what is right and wrong. It includes the formulation of moral rules that have implications for what human actions, institutions, and ways of life should be like. It is usually contrasted with theoretical ethics and applied ethics.
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Ethics is concerned with whether and how those ethical opinions can be reasonably justified. Normative ethics in particular is concerned with articulating and developing the general ethical theories in terms of which ethical opinions at the applied level might be justified. Central issues in normative ethics include what it is for an action to ...
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different approaches to normative ethics: the Four Principles Approach; a Human Rights Approach; and a Virtue Ethics Approach. In Week 4 you will be introduced to an ethical decision-making framework that you can apply to your own care situations. Non-normative ethics has two areas: descriptive or empirical ethics which describes the moral life;
Philosophical Study of Ethics 1. Meta-ethics 2. Normative Ethics 3. Applied Ethics 2 B. Meta-ethics consists in the attempt to answer the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of ethical theory itself. Examples: 1. Are ethical statements such as "lying is wrong", or "friendship is good" true or false?
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Dec 10, 2020 · 9 Altmetric. Download reference work entry PDF. Synonyms. Moral philosophy; Moral principles; Rules of conduct. Introduction. Ethics are the principles guiding one’s moral behavior. Ethics is also the study of these principles – namely, what is good, and which actions are right or wrong.
normative and non-normative work (as in proper versus discreditable research) on the one hand and the claim that all research is normative on the other. To contribute to such an informed discussion of norms in research, I will distinguish between and discuss four types of norms:
