Kantianism, Utilitarianism, And Applied Ethics

The contemporary study of ethics has many associations in philosophy itself and other disciplines such as psychology, medicine, sociology, politics, and neurobiology. They are an analysis of diverse normative ethical theories including deontology, consequentialism, Role Ethics, virtue ethics, the ethics of care, and Pragmatic Ethics, along with applying them to current moral issues. There are divergences about what exactly gives an act, regulation, or disposition its moral value. Generally speaking, there are three assessments on how moral problems should be solved: Normative Ethics, Meta-ethics, and Applied Ethics.

Most moral theories will tell us what principles should be utilized to determine whether an action is right or wrong. Classifying those principles are normative ethics because norms are sought out as principles that determine how people ought to act. Other theories in this vein are Kantianism, Utilitarianism, and some variants of Contrarianism. The act of identifying the principles used to make moral judgements are Descriptive Ethics—the domain of Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology. By studying individuals, these sciences can tell us what morals guide their actions. It seeks to identify the principles used to avoid unethical

As it developed, post-structuralism questioned the very existence of reality as we know it, as it was heavily theoretical and fragmented, so too was it anti-authoritarian and imbued with near nihilistic tendencies. Meta--or critical—ethics asks these questions: Is morality more a matter of taste than a matter of fact? Are our moral standards socially comparative? Error theory comes into play here stating that moral judgments are false, because nothing is morally wrong. The religiously oriented could typically respond with morality being truth, as they may believe in an objective good and an objective evil, whereas, the irreligious would claim that morality is