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deals with moral issues concerning nature, the ecosystem, and its nonhuman contents
environmental ethics
examines moral principles concerning business environment which involves issues about corporate practices, business behaviors and thee conducts and relationship[s of indiv in the organizations.
business ethics
study moral issues about sexuality and human sexual behavior
sexual ethics
deals with what is right for a society to do and how it should act as a whole
social ethics
refers to moral system that determines the moral value of actions by the outcomes or results
teleology
_______ as a moral system, places emphasis on developing good habits of character like kindness and generosity and avoiding bad character trait
virtue ethics
_______ philosophically examines specific controversial moral issues
applied ethics
concerns ethical issues pertaining to, biomedical researches, medicine, healthcare…
bioethics
submits that moral truth are unknown by intuition, by intermediate instinctive knowledge without reference to any evidence
moral intuitionism
branch of ethics that studies how a man ought to act, morally speaking. examines ethical norms
normative ethics
normative ethics is categorized into 3
- deontological 2. teleological 3. virtue ethics
an ethical system that bases morality on independent moral rules or duties
deontology
is a meta-ethical stance which states that moral facts are known through observation and experience
moral empiricism
contends that moral facts and principles are knoable a prior, that is, by reason alone and without references to experience
moral rationalism
states that moral judgements convey propositions, they are “truth bearers”, or they are either true or false
cognitivism
claim that the existence of moral facts and the truth of moral judgments are independent of people’s thoughts and perceptions
moral realism
holds the truth of ethical propositions are dependent on the attitudes or standards of a person or group of persons
ethical subjectivism
denies that moral judgement are either true or false. neither true or false
non-cognitivism
is the most popular form of non-cognitivist theory. submits that moral judgments are mere expressions of our emotions and feelings
emotivism
theorizes that moral facts and principles apply to everybody in all places
moral universalism