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1. normative ethics Answer: branch of ethics focused on judgments regarding obligations,
values
2. non-normative ethics Answer: (aka descriptive ethics) Answer: branch of ethics focused on
scientific and descriptive study of ethics, including moral justification
3. meta-ethics Answer: a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and
scope of moral values, properties, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory
focus on what is moral, meta-ethics focuses on what morality itself is. (Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy)
4. applied ethics Answer: the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of particular
issues in private and public life which are matters of moral judgment. It is thus the attempts to use
philosophical methods to identify the morally correct course of action in various fields of everyday life.
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5. ethical relativism Answer: the belief that rules of ethics are tied to a given individual, society,
and/or culture; denies the existence of any single universally applicable moral standard
6. ethical absolutism Answer: the view that aflrms the existence of a single correct and
universally applicable moral standard
7. determinism Answer: The theory that everything in the universe is subject to laws of cause
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