PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Normative Ethics, Descriptive Ethics, Bioethics
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Bioethics like ethics its parent discipline is about morality, and morality is about life. Morality: beliefs regarding morally right and wrong actions and morally good and bad persons or character. Morality is about people"s moral judgements, principles, rules, standards, and theories all of which help direct conduct, mark out moral practices, and provide the yardsticks for measuring moral worth. Ethics: the study of morality using the tools and methods of philosophy. Ethics also known as moral philosophy is a reasoned way of delving into the meaning and import of moral concepts and issues and of evaluating the merits of moral judgements and standards. The study of morality using the methodology of science. Its purpose is to investigate the empirical facts of morality the actual beliefs, behaviours and practices that constitute people"s moral experience. Descriptive ethics: how do we in fact live? descriptive ethics. The search for, and justification of, moral standards, or norms.
