Branches of Ethics
The following examples of questions that might be considered in each field illustrate the differences between the fields:
- Descriptive ethics: What do people think is right?
- Normative ethics (prescriptive): How should people act?
- Applied ethics: How do we take moral knowledge and put it into practice?
- Meta-ethics: What does "right" even mean?
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