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Applied ethics
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Applied ethics
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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
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