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Right&wrong (Metaethics (The study of ethics, where do ethical values…
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Metaethics
The study of ethics, where do ethical values come from. Basically studies the meaning of morality and moral values.
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“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” Ernest Hemingway
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Examples: Abortion, euthanasia, death penalty
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Studies the morality of a person, analyzes what makes a person good or bad.
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“Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me?" David Foster
Studies how we should act, and if an action is right or wrong.
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“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.” Saint Augustine
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Normative ethics analyses the actions of a person, while virtue ethics analyzes the person
You can use the virtue ethics theory in applied ethics because you can question the morality of a person performing an abortion, or a death penalty
Applied ethics focuses on the morality of an issue, metaethics studies what morality is
While normative ethics studies if an action is right or wrong, metaethics studies what it means to be wrong or right
These two terms are related because in applied ethics you use the normative ethics theory to analyze current issues
While virtue ethics studies the correctness of a person, metaethics studies what it means to be correct