Many questions in normative ethics draw on issues in other branches of philosophy, particularly epistemology andmetaethics. For example, a normative ethicist might be keen to develop a view about one's moral responsibility that shifts depending on whether or not that person knew what they were doin...
the study of what ‘ought to be’ in economics rather than what ‘is’. For example, the statement that ‘people who earn high incomesoughtto pay more income tax than people who earn low incomes’ is a normative statement. Normative statements reflect people's subjective value judgements of ...
What are contemporary virtue ethics? What is the difference between duties ethics and virtue ethics? What does care ethics share with Aristotelian virtue ethics? What are the characteristics of virtue ethics? How does situationism challenge virtue ethics?
Cultural norms are specific examples of normative principles, embodying the ethics and values of a particular society. 7 What is a normative statement? A statement that expresses a value judgment about whether a situation is desirable or undesirable. 6 Can personal values be considered standards?
Briefly describe using examples, the difference between morals, ethics, and laws. Explain in words the difference between a positive and a negative network externality and give an example of each? Which of the following statements is an example of a positive, as opposed to norm...
ethics-y. And indeed, if the realist were to claim that weneednormative properties to explain what’s up with the natural world (for example, the degree of consensus about the golden rule), she would risk positing a “normativity of the gaps” – that is, a normativity that survives ...
ETHICSCHARACTERVIRTUEBEHAVIORClassically-conceived accounts of character posit traits that are both dynamic and global. Dynamic traits produce behavior, and global traits produce behavior across the full range of situation kinds relevant to a particular trait. If you are classically just, for example, ...
No ethics approval was sought as the study is based on panel data. According to the NHS Health Research Authority and the European Pharmaceutical Market Research Association (EphMRA), panel research does not require ethical approval if ethical guidelines are followed. The survey was distributed via ...
That being said, this lack of clarity could be the result of a modest transla- tion of this document from Italian by the country's Society of Human Genetics. Along the same lines, the opinion of the German National Ethics Council's 2004 Biobanks for Research29 specifies that it would ...
Virtue ethics is also likely to ask the question whether the person given the consent is a virtuous agent. Humans without the virtues are likely to give consent when they shouldn’t—when, for example, the consented-to action might actually cause unjustified harm to the fortunes or capacities ...