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| Frage | Antworten |
| Descriptive Ethics | Describes and compares the ethical norms in different societies. |
| Normative Ethics | First order ethical questions about how we should behave; which ethical norms we should follow. |
| Applied Ethics | Applying normative principles and arguments to particular areas, for example, medical ethics.. Also applied to issues such as questions about euthanasia and the conduct of war etc. |
| Meta-ethics | The consideration of second order questions about the nature and purpose of morality, such as what is the meaning of good/bad or right/wrong. |
| First Order Questions | Questions raised by normative ethics - how we should behave/ what we should do. |
| Second Order Questions | Meta-ethical questions about the nature & purpose of morality. |
| Divine Command Theory | Meta-ethically, the non-natural view that morality is defined by God's commands, revealed through scripture & The Church |
| Religious Ethics | The approach to ethics which derives moral values from God/a divine realm; for example The Divine Command Theory |
| Secular Ethics | The approach which argues that ethical theories and actions are based on human faculties such as logic and reason, and not on religious commands given by God. |
| John Calvin | Calvin uses the Divine Command Theory to justify his view on predestination. This is because he believes that God is the "supreme rule of religiousness". |
| Calvin's Key Argument | God cannot be 'caused' to do anything. If this was the case, it would imply that there was a force external to God who is considered to omnipotent. |
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