Ethical Theories
- Created by: Erinbarnes7
- Created on: 09-11-17 14:28
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- ETHICAL THEORIES
- NORMATIVE (prescriptive)
- traditional
- gains answers of whats right and wrong through religious traditions
- teleological
- utilitarainism
- situation ethics
- deontological
- absolutism
- natural moral law
- based on concept of duty
- concerned with motivation rather than consequences
- an action is right if its in agreement with our duties e.g. free speech but not racism
- teleological
- study of action
- DESCRIPTIVE
- compares and contrasts how different religions have answered questions of morality
- considered to be based on sociological/ anthropological view point
- compares and contrasts how different religions have answered questions of morality
- METAETHICS/PHILOSOPHICAL
- modern
- what do we mean by good/bad
- emotivism
- definism
- intuitionism
- NORMATIVE (prescriptive)
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