PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Applied Ethics, Ethics, Normative Ethics
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Morality is a formal system meant to generate co-operative behaviour and regulate interpersonal social relations through practical action guidance and conflict resolution. Ethics is the systematic study of morality; the study of the concepts and theoretical justification involved in practical reasoning or reasoning meant to be applied to govern individual behaviour. Meta-ethics is the identification, explication and critical evaluation of morality as a concept, abstracted from specific content or specific statements of behaviour. Normative ethics is statements often in the form of principles or rules that tell people what to do or how to behave to live a moral life. Applied ethics is the study of the theoretical and practical moral issues involved in specific contexts such as medicine, business or engineering. Advance derivatives are written statements made while the patient is competent for use at a time when she is no longer competent, stating what medical treatment would/ would not be acceptable to her.
