PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Deontological Ethics, Applied Ethics, Casuistry
25 Aug 2020
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The examination of specific moral issues in personal or social life. Principle based approaches: principle based approaches apply principles from particular theories, such as utilitarian or deontological ethics to specific ethical situations. Casuistry: analyzes ethical situations by comparing them to analogous cases where considered ethical judgments already exist. Domains of applied ethics have sometimes become their own areas of specialized focus such as bioethics, business ethics, research ethics, or. Professional ethics involved the formation of ethical principles and standards that guide the conduct of persons in particular professions. The term was first used by thomas percival in the first code of medical. There are now professional codes for many professions and some have said that the defining characteristic of a profession by the 20th century was the adoption of a code of conduct. Some contemporary issues in applied ethics: abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, the ethics of whistleblowing, torture and the ticking bomb scenarios.
