Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Applied ethics
- Is the application of ethics to
real world problems.
- It is ethics with
respect to real-world
actions and their
moral considerations
in the areas of
- The professions,
health
- Technology, law,
and leadership
- Private and public life
- Practical ethics attemps to answer the
question of how people should act in
specific situations.
- With case based reasoning
- Principalism
- Principlism is an applied
ethics approach to the
examination of moral
dilemmas that is based
upon the application of
certain ethical principles.
- Ethical codes
- A code of ethics and
professional conduct
outlines the ethical
principles that govern
decisions and behavior at a
company or organization.
- HISTORY
- Applied ethics has
expanded the study of
ethics beyond the realms
of academic philosophical
discourse.
- The field of applied ethics,
as it appears today,
emerged from debate
surrounding rapid medical
and technological advances
- in the early 1970s and is
now established as a
subdiscipline of moral
philosophy.
- IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS
- Applied ethics is more
specific than normative
ethics
- With a practical
approach to ethics,
people don’t need to
agree on a moral theory
- They can agree to solutions
to ethical dilemmas by
reviewing the facts and
related harms of a specific
situation.
- CHARACTERISTICS
- The four-principle
approach, commonly
termed principlism
- entails consideration
and application of
four prima facie
ethical principles:
- Nowadays, this
applied ethics,
which in many
cases is
translated
- into different
ethical codes
- Autonomy
- non-maleficence
- beneficence,
and justice.
- BRANCH OF APPLIED ETHICS
- Medical ethics,
- Business ethics
- Environmental Ethics
- Engineering ethics
- and the like are all branches
of applied ethics.
- Also called practical ethics