PHIL 2750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Meta-Ethics, Applied Ethics

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2750
• Professor: Robert J.Leland

Document Summary

Proper domain of moral philosophy is moral theory: moral pracice is the province of everyman. The interest of ethics is thus almost wholly theoreical irrelevance of moral philosophy to pracical concerns salvaion isn"t everything . Some connecion between being a moral philosopher and being a moral expert moral experts to do applied ethics. The view that moral philosophers are moral experts has become very prominent, and applied ethics is one of the few growth areas in a depressed academic job market. Several criics mostly the ideologies of the poliical right and let most of the criicisms of applied ethics expressed in conversaion it is only recently that aricles published in professional journals applied ethics: rise in the 1970"s. It is the microscope through which we examine out moral lives: the relaionship between applied ethics and the history of moral philosophy.