normative ethics Flashcards
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ethics
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the branch of philosophy that explores what the right thing to do is
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normative ethics
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- explores what makes for morally good and bad behaviour - in general
explores what the underlying reasons are of why we might call an action a good one
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absolutism
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things are either right or wrong
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relativism
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considers circumstances
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what makes an act moral
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- agency
- consequences
- intentions
- moral patients (what’s the reasoning)
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utilitarianism focuses on consequences
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kantian ethics focuses on motives
virtue ethics focuses on agency
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teleological
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ethics which focus on the consequences/result that an action may have
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deontological
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the act is either right or wrong, it doesn’t take the actions or consequences into account
