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Ethics: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Ethics: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
■ Meta-Ethics
– studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of
moral facts; it is concerned with the question: what is goodness?
■ Applied Ethics
– concerned with real-world actions and their moral considerations
in the areas of private and public life, the professions, health,
Normative Ethics
■ Normative Ethics is also different from descriptive ethics as
descriptive ethics is concerned with empirical investigation
with people’s moral beliefs.