Applied ethics

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