Contemporary Ethical Issues Flashcards
What are practical ethics?
Ethics that concerns itself with particular controversial issues.
What are some examples of topics covered by practical ethics?
Global poverty, distributive justice, abortion, euthanasia, duties to non-human animals.
What are normative ethics?
Ethics that concerns itself with general patterns.
What are some examples of topics covered by normative ethics?
Should we always do what brings about the best outcome? Are pleasure and pain the only things that makes someone’s life go better or worse?
What are metaethics?
What ethics is really about? The investigation of what ethical thought and talk is really about.
What are some examples of topics covered by metaethics?
What do we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong?’ How can we determine what’s right and wrong?
