Need help with Ethics HW!!!

[daman1]

Anyone who knows anything about ethics please help out:

1) Explain the dangers of each of the three languages:
a. descriptive

b. normative

c. meta-ethics

[decadbal]

if your gonna be a lawyer i doubt youll need ethics bro.. or a car sellsman, or maybe a porn star, who knows really

[juicehoe]

Ahh i just took that class last term... if i find my book ill help u out

[abstrack]

Anyone who knows anything about ethics please help out:

1) Explain the dangers of each of the three languages:
a. descriptive

b. normative

c. meta-ethics

A> Descriptive ethics deal with what the population actually believes to be right and wrong, and holds up as ideals or condemns or punishes in law or politics, as contrasted to normative ethics which deals with what the population should believe to be right and wrong, and such concepts as sin and evil. Society is usually balancing the two in some way, and sociology and social psychology are often concerned with the balance, and more clinical assessments and instruments to determine ethical attitudes.




B> Normative ethics involves arriving at moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct. In a sense, it is a search for an ideal litmus test of proper behavior. The Golden Rule is a classic example of a normative principle: We should do to others what we would want others to do to us. Since I do not want my neighbor to steal my car, then it is wrong for me to steal her car. Since I would want people to feed me if I was starving, then I should help feed starving people. Using this same reasoning, I can theoretically determine whether any possible action is right or wrong. So, based on the Golden Rule, it would also be wrong for me to lie to, harass, victimize, assault, or kill others. The Golden Rule is an example of a normative theory that establishes a single principle against which we judge all actions. Other normative theories focus on a set of foundational principles, or a set of good character traits.

The key assumption in normative ethics is that there is only one ultimate criterion of moral conduct, whether it is a single rule or a set of principles. Three strategies will be noted here: (1) virtue theories, (2) duty theories, and (3) consequentialist theories.


C> The term "meta" means after or beyond, and, consequently, the notion of metaethics involves a removed, or bird's eye view of the entire project of ethics. We may define metaethics as the study of the origin and meaning of ethical concepts. When compared to normative ethics and applied ethics, the field of metaethics is the least precisely defined area of moral philosophy. Two issues, though, are prominent: (1) metaphysical issues concerning whether morality exists independently of humans, and (2) psychological issues concerning the underlying mental basis of our moral judgments and conduct.

[daman1]

Too bad this was a month ago, lol....

[hercules88]

if your gonna be a lawyer i doubt youll need ethics bro

so what your saying is if i screw over my client or participate in unethicle behavior the ABA wont take my bar card and disbar me.

ethics is huge in the field of law bro.

[hercules88]

i can help out.... it is unethical to get other people to do your homework.