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What are the three types of categories of ethics? |
Metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics |
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What is metaethics? |
is the study of morality as a concept. It involves considering whether morality can exist, whether morality can be justified. |
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What is normative ethics? |
comprises the statements and principles that tell people how to behave to live a moral life. |
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What is applied ethics? |
study of morality and the problems asscociated with very specific practical contexts, such as medicine, research, business, engineering or advertising. |
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What are four possible sources for morality in 3 categories? |
Subjectivisim, Moral/Ethical Relativism, Objectivism (an authority or a reason/rationality) |
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What is Kant's Moral Theory;? |
Deontology |
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What is Deontology? |
It's kant's moral theory that suggests that its a duty based system of morality, in which individual's motives are the basis for judging their actions morally right or wrong. |
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What's A Perfect Duty? |
are those duties that are obligiatory, and can never be breached, as in "don't lie, don't steal" |
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What's An Imperfect Duty? |
are duties that aim at a particular outcome, like duties of benevolence. They are always second to perfect duty. |
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What are Prima-facie duties? |
duties that are obligatory unless there are strong, compelling reasons to override them. |
