PHLB09H3 Midterm: midterm definitions.docx
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It concerns beliefs regarding morally right and wrong actions and morally good and bad persons or character. Ethics is the study of morality using the tolls and methods of philosophy. It is the study of morality using the methodology of science. Its purpose is to investigate the emphirical facts of morality, the actual beliefs, behaviors, and practices that constitute people"s moral experience. Is it the search for and justification of moral standards or norms. In normative ethics we ask whether an action is right of whether a person is good. It is the study of the meaning and justification of basic moral beliefs. In metaethics we ask what it means for an action to be right or for a person to be good. The use of moral norms and concepts to resolve practical moral issues. It uses moral principles, theories, arguments or analyses to try to answer moral questions that confront people everyday.
