Midterms

• ETHICAL THEORIES

  • ordered set of moral standards
  • assessing what is morally right and what is morally wrong
• ETHICAL DILEMMA

  • necessitating a choice between two equal alternatives
• TYPES OF ETHICS

  • META-ETHICS
  • NORMATIVE ETHICS
  • APPLIED ETHICS
  • DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS
• META-ETHICS

  • ethical judgments and theories
  • understand the nature of ethical proper8es
  • What does “goodness “or “right” mean?
• NORMATIVE ETHICS

  • establish norms or standards of conduct
  • How should people act?
• APPLIED ETHICS

  • component study of the wider sub-discipline of ethics
  • actual application of ethical theory
  • practical aspect of moral considerations.
• DESCRIPTIVE ETHICS

  • form of empirical research into the aCtudes of individuals or groups
  • observation of the moral decision-making process