normative ethics

Cards (3)

  • what is normative ethics?
    concerned with providing guidelines for determining what is morally right or wrong. Deals with content of moral judgement and aims to establish ethical principles that guide human behaviour
  • what questions are asked in normative ethics?
    what actions are permissible or impermissible?
    what principles should govern ethical-decision making?
  • what is an example of normative ethics?

    utilitarianism, deontology and other specific ethical theories that fall under normative ethics