Applied ethics

Applied ethics

1. Is the application of ethics to real world problems.

   • It is ethics with respect to real-world actions and their moral considerations in the areas of
     • The professions, health
     • Technology, law, and leadership
     • Private and public life
   • Practical ethics attemps to answer the question of how people should act in specific situations.
     • With case based reasoning
       • Principalism
         • Principlism is an applied ethics approach to the examination of moral dilemmas that is based upon the application of certain ethical principles.
       • Ethical codes
         • A code of ethics and professional conduct outlines the ethical principles that govern decisions and behavior at a company or organization.

2. HISTORY

   • Applied ethics has expanded the study of ethics beyond the realms of academic philosophical discourse.
     • The field of applied ethics, as it appears today, emerged from debate surrounding rapid medical and technological advances
       • in the early 1970s and is now established as a subdiscipline of moral philosophy.
       • IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS
         • Applied ethics is more specific than normative ethics
           • With a practical approach to ethics, people don’t need to agree on a moral theory
             • They can agree to solutions to ethical dilemmas by reviewing the facts and related harms of a specific situation.

3. CHARACTERISTICS

   • The four-principle approach, commonly termed principlism
     • entails consideration and application of four prima facie ethical principles:
       • Nowadays, this applied ethics, which in many cases is translated
         • into different ethical codes
       • Autonomy
         • non-maleficence
           • beneficence, and justice.
       • BRANCH OF APPLIED ETHICS
         • Medical ethics,
           • Business ethics
             • Environmental Ethics
           • Engineering ethics
             • and the like are all branches of applied ethics.

4. Also called practical ethics