What Is Applied Ethics?

Applied ethics has become a study that is relatively different from theoretical ethics, and has formed some research fields that have become commonplace. Taking this fact as a starting point, by proposing and answering what is the conceptual significance of applied ethics, what is applied ethics, what is applied ethics, what is applied ethics for, and how is applied ethics Applying these five closely related issues, this article attempts to propose a mobile definition of applied ethics in principle application mode and defend this applied ethics.

Applied ethics

(philosophy)

Applied ethics is the study of ethics

Applied ethics is valuable in "application"

Since ethics has always been called practical research, how can it separate theoretical ethics from practical or applied ethics in recent development? Isn't it practical and applicable? Is applied ethics a required ethics study? The discussion of applied ethics has endured such doubts from the beginning. But this problem has never troubled those engaged in such discussions in various application areas. Whether or not anyone questioned, they pushed the discussion forward like a marmot, and eventually created applied ethics that were different from the theoretical ethics. So for ethics researchers, the relative distinction between applied ethics and theoretical ethics in the recent decades can be a starting point, because it is an established fact.

What does it mean to add the word "applied" before "ethics"?

We know that the applied qualifier is widely used in the West. Needless to say in science, it is also widely used in humanities, such as applied law, applied linguistics, applied folklore, applied sociology, applied anthropology, and so on. As long as a research can be divided into a theoretical part, the part corresponding to the actual application is called applied. Therefore, an applied research is a kind of research involving practical cases. Compared with general theory, even that theory itself is practical. The term applied ethics is used. This use began in the 19th century. Although the phrase has been used intermittently since then, it hasn't affected much. It was only in the 1970s that as the terms medical ethics (1974) and bioethics (1977) and the concept of environmental ethics became more and more commonly used, applied ethics became a recognized one. terms of.

Regardless of this, the development of metaethics in this century is one of the important reasons for the relative division between theoretical ethics and applied ethics. Metaethics or formal ethics is the use of pure reason in ethics. Classical ethics directly provides guidance and suggestions for behavior, and its theory is practical. The core reason of Greek ethics is wise or practical reason. Kant's moral metaphysics is the ultimate basis of the moral law of practical reason. The metaphysics of traditional ethics is philosophy. While analytic philosophy rejects metaphysics, it has opened up a purely rational place in ethics to form meta-ethics. Metaethics insists that it does not provide any guidance and suggestions on practice, and limits the task of ethics to the analysis of the nature and usage of ethics concepts and judgments, so it rejects all traditional ethics. But socio-politics, legal ethics, medical (and subsequent life) ethics, and environmental ethics since the 1970s have discussed traditionally elaborated ethical judgments (principle) in solving actual cases, etc There is a problem of ineffectiveness without buying a metaethical account. As a result, with the development of applied ethics, metaethics is declining. Ethics returns to substantive (content) ethics. But this substantive ethics is also largely formalized. The concept of applicability of ethics principles is formalized in applied ethics, and formal expression of the principles of ethics is required. The expression of ethics theory itself has been formalized to varying degrees due to the influence of metaethics. Substantive ethics then forms two relatively distinct parts: theoretical ethics and applied ethics.

What to apply?

There are two main approaches to the application of ethical theory: systematic and partial. The former such as J. P. Thirous applied humanistic ethics to various fields of application ("Ethics: Theory and Practice",

Introduction to 2001 Chinese Applied Ethics

The contents of this book include: general theories of applied ethics, economic ethics, environmental ethics, and bioethics. The thesis collected in this book is comprehensive, covering a wide range and unique insights. It has a high scientific, theoretical and academic nature, which can be consulted by relevant people.

2001 Chinese Applied Ethics Book Catalogue

Preface

1 General theory of applied ethics

2 Economic ethics

3 Environmental ethics

4 Bioethics

5 Political ethics

6 International ethics

7 Technology ethics

8 Management Ethics

9 Cyber Ethics

10 Family Ethics

11 Foreign research developments

12 Special offers

13 Introduction to Research Institutions

Three books

Index of Applied Ethics Papers in National Newspapers and Magazines, 2001

Selected Chinese Ethics Articles in 2001

Applied ethics raises this meaningful question: "we" are no longer the "them" because of the changes in "our" living skills and the resulting patterns of existence, because of spatial constraints rather than geography The "them" must have a correct understanding of the "space" of "us".

Birth time

Applied ethics was born in ancient Greece