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  2. It is typically contrasted with theoretical ethics, or metaethics, which is concerned with the nature rather than the content of ethical theories and moral judgments, and applied ethics, or the application of normative ethics to practical problems. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.)

    • Metaethics

      Metaethics, the subdiscipline of ethics concerned with the...

    • Deontological

      deontological ethics, in philosophy, ethical theories that...

    • Teleological

      teleological ethics, (teleological from Greek telos, “end”;...

    • Applied Ethics

      applied ethics, the application of normative ethical...

    • Virtue Ethics

      virtue ethics, Approach to ethics that takes the notion of...

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      Normative ethics seeks to establish norms or standards of...

  3. Normative Ethics, Metaethics and Applied Ethics. What is the difference? 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 ...

    • Mark Dimmock, Andrew Fisher
    • 2017
  4. 1. Applied Ethics as Distinct from Normative Ethics and Metaethics. One way of categorizing the field of ethics (as a study of morality) is by distinguishing between its three branches, one of them being applied ethics. By contrasting applied ethics with the other branches, one can get a better understanding what exactly applied ethics is about.

  5. 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.

  6. Medical ethics, business ethics, engineering ethics, and the like are all branches of applied ethics. Applied ethics is more specific than normative ethics, which is a branch of philosophy that develops moral theories – such as the ethics of care or deontology – about how people should behave.

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