Normative ethics

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normative ethics
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Normative ethics
  1. also called prescriptive
    1. seeks to establish norms or criteria to determine criteria to determine which behaviors, values, norms, institutions, etc. can be considered correct or just from a moral point of view.
      1. consists of formulating moral judgments and finding a way to justify how to justify them.
        1. can be considered morally right or just.
          1. CHARACTERISTICS
            1. IMPORTANCE
              1. Oorient people's conduct toward the common good.
                1. Promotes good living in society
                  1. RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES
                    1. No discipline can renounce the investigation of its theoretical foundations or the explanation of the meaning of its fundamental expressions.
                      1. to be continued in metaethics
                        1. project concrete norms of more immediate application proper to applied ethics.
                  2. developing and defending some conception of the ideal person
                    1. promotes self-control in different areas
                  3. Normative ethics reflects on what is morally right and why.
                    1. Objectives towards moral facts, as the target of moral evaluations about property or action.
                      1. Optimization of interests or stakeholders (preference), utilitarian, happiness (eudaimonia), or welfare ethics
                    2. TYPES OF NORMATIVE ETHICS
                      1. Theories of Virtue
                        1. Deontological Theories
                          1. Consequentialist Theories
                            1. Specify and defend some thing or list of things that are good in themselves.
                              1. The law of love is a deontological principle: it is a law
                                1. Establishes formal or relational criteria such as fairness or equality.
                              2. an action is considered morally good because of some characteristic of the action itself,
                                1. not because the product of the action is good
                              3. Those actions that would be performed by a perfectly virtuous agent
                                1. seeks to explain3 the nature of a moral agent as a motivating force for ethical behavior.
                                  1. performs well or appropriately
                                2. Utilitarianism
                                  1. Contractarianism
                                    1. Deontology
                                      1. falls within the domain of moral theories that guide and assess our choices of what we ought to do
                                        1. the ability to use reason was what defined a person.
                                          1. there are two different kinds of ethical duties, perfect duties and imperfect duties.
                                        2. refers to a type of moral or political theory that employs the idea of contract
                                          1. The contract involved can be either actual or hypothetical depending on the particular contractarian theory
                                        3. actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of a majority.
                                          1. is that the prevention or elimination of suffering should take precedence over any alternative act that would only increase the happiness of someone already happy
                                            1. is an effort to provide an answer to the practical question “What ought a person to do?”
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