What is the difference between descriptive ethics and normative ethics?
What is the danger with getting confused between them?
- Descriptive ethics: An ethical approach that simply represents ethical beliefs without evaluating their accuracy or appropriateness.
- Normative ethics: An ethical approach that attempts to prescribe what ethical behaviors should be accepted or become cultural norms.
- Ethical subjectivism stands for the idea that each individual should have their own moral beliefs and that these beliefs are by definition morally right. But this move from a statement about what is the case ("People have many different moral beliefs") to a conclusion about what ought to be the case ("People should have different moral beliefs and they should act on these beliefs because they are right for them") is illogical and is known in philosophy as committing "the naturalistic fallacy."
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.According to Hobbes, humans realized that ruling power had to be given to someone who could guarantee order because
A) rational reflection and the desire for self-preservation led to the realization that society could not be maintained in a condition of "war of all against all." B) one group eventually came to power and conquered the others. C) the general will of the group desired vengeance. D) there never was a time when a social contract did not exist.
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. Ferguson's argument in favor of deregulating the banking system isn't worth a hoot. Consider this: Ferguson is a banker himself, and if banks are deregulated, he will earn millions
A) Red herring. B) No fallacy. C) Straw man. D) Tu quoque (you, too). E) Argument against the person, circumstantial.
Jesus was born during the rule of the Roman emperor
a. Augustus Caesar. b. Herod. c. Paul. d. Dionysus.