[PHIL 251] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 16 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Drexel University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 251
• Professor: Mele Carol Anne

Document Summary

Meta ethics: focus on ethical theory, focuses on objective truth. Each person has their own opinion on morality. Morality is determined by different cultures: looks at moral psychology. Normative ethics: focus on ethical theory. Applied ethics: engineering, biology, environmental, business. Morality- a set of social norms or standards to apply to actions. Social standards apply to a group in a society: can be shared or public, presents the idea that morality is normative (action guiding) Saying a dr. advocating for physician assisted suicide is descriptive. Asking if that is morally right is normative: law is also a set of social standards that are action guiding. People can question whether laws are morally just. Person has a right to their own property. Person might not agree if they were aware that you were taking. If they were to know it"s morally wrong. Amoralist would argue that you can"t force morals on a person.