PP110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2, 15-16: Normative Ethics, Legal Ethics, Business Ethics
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Ethics is the philosophical sub-discipline which examines morality, metaphysics, epistemology. The philosophical study of the standards of right and wrong, or of good and bad. The branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act, morally speaking. A way of classifying different normative moral theories is in the terms of the emphasis on the right" or the good". Other moral theories; mill"s utilitarianism > begin by developing a theory of the good. > right actions are then de ned derivatively as those that best contribute to to the good. Study of how ethical norms or rules are applied in particular cases of unusual dif culty. > abortion, mercy killing, treatment of animals, genetic research etc. > encompasses different sub elds; bioethics, business ethics, environmental ethics, legal ethics etc. > it applies philosophical scrutiny to any part of philosophy.
