Ethics

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What is meant by the term Ethics?
A system recommending concepts of what is right or wrong.
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What are the three types of Ethics?
Normative>how we act in everyday life / Applied>how can moral outcomes be achieved in specific situations such as Abortion/Meta>theoretical meaning of moral propositions and how their truth values may be determined.
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What is Teleological Ethics?
Our actions are judged on whether it produces the desired outcome and if the end is successful, then you have acted in a moral fashion.
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What is Deontological Ethics?
The worth of an action is based on absolute rules and people who follow this are concerned with the nature of the acts, which are right or wrong in themselves.
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Example statement from a follower of Teleological Ethics and a response from a follower of Deontological Ethics is....
TE > He has murdered your son, kill him. DE > The 6th commandment states "Thou shall not kill".
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What are the three types of Ethics?

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Normative>how we act in everyday life / Applied>how can moral outcomes be achieved in specific situations such as Abortion/Meta>theoretical meaning of moral propositions and how their truth values may be determined.

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What is Teleological Ethics?

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What is Deontological Ethics?

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Example statement from a follower of Teleological Ethics and a response from a follower of Deontological Ethics is....

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