Philosophy 2720F/G Study Guide - Rule Utilitarianism, Virtue Ethics, Demyship
10 Jul 2014
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3 branches: moral axiology(theories of good and evil), virtue ethics(what counts as moral excellence in character), moral obligation(actions and practices that are moral permissible and impermissible, and what is morally required of all agents) applied ethics: resolve specific moral issues and problems which arise in different areas of life, also borrows ethics from meta ethics and theoretical normative ethics, and finding acceptable resolutions of moral problems of present and practical urgency. Mills: utilitarian theory approach on moral obligation, we have to create the greatest good for the greatest amount of people: moral obligation into axiology, the good to be pursued is happiness, happiness alone is intrinsically good, includes pleasure and the absence of pain, goes into a proof by a meta ethical question, also virtue ethics normative matters, ex. characteristics in children, also applied ethics regarding specific practices for the evaluation of the moral rightness and wrongness of the practice.
