Applied ethics is distinguished from normative ethics, which concerns what people should believe to be right and wrong, and from meta-ethics, which concerns the nature of moral statements.
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And since clinical research pursues such rules of action and tries to improve the available ones, it constitutes " explorative and normative ethics " based on empirical research and experience.
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For example, without doubt biomedicine is natural science; clinical research, however, is practical science; it is also normative ethics; clinical practice is practiced morality; and so on.
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In normative ethics, Brennan has developed a moderate deontological account according to which rights can be overridden on the basis of the amount of good that can be brought about by doing so.
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Paul Kurtz, who believes that the careful, secular pursuit of normative rules is vital to society, coined the term " eupraxophy " to refer to his approach to normative ethics.
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On his USC profile, Wedgwood states that his research interests are " ethics ( including meta-ethics, practical reason, normative ethics, and the history of ethics ) and epistemology ".
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A similar analogy could be made about moral sense, which might give us a clear idea of what " rightness " is, but perhaps doesn't grant us direct knowledge of normative ethics.
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The central claim of this work is that a fundamental issue in normative ethics is what ultimate reasons might underlie our actions; Crisp argues that the best exposition of such reasons will not employ moral concepts.
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Virtue theory's necessary commitment to a teleological account of human life thus puts the tradition in sharp tension with other dominant approaches to normative ethics, which, because they focus on actions, do not bear this burden.
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The fact is that Sam Harris is not the first ( or the last ) to support-more than just any ethical naturalism-the idea that scientists " as well " as philosophers can discuss normative ethics.
