PHIL 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Virtue Ethics, Normative Ethics, Psychological Egoism
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Applied ethics (ex: biomedical ethics; english ethics; business ethics applied to & within particular professions) ethical theory: meta ethics. Beyond : normative ethics: theories (ex 1: truth; morality) the study of ethics itself; approaches ethics as its own subject subjectivism + objectivism (ex 2: moral psychology) cultural relativism. > morality: set of social standards, norms that apply to actions morality is its own perspective action-guiding. There is a coincidence between morality & the law. There is a divergence between morality & the law. Illegal & morally right we hope we live in a society where the laws are just (morality may be ~rooted~ in law) What is permissible (not wrong to do it) What is obligatory (wrong not to do it) What is heroic (not wrong not to do it. Ex: it is illegal & orally wrong to steal. Ex: it is legally permissible & morally right (obligatory) to vote. > property rights laws; protection of private property.
