What Are Applied Ethics?

Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017

For many people the expression “applied ethics” sounds like a pleonasm. They tend to claim that ethics by its very nature is about practical matters. It deals with human actions and their motivations and there is no need to create an additional discipline with special practical bias. However, at least since the 1970s, there has been a growing movement of applied ethics which resulted not only in the increase of enrolment to the academic courses but also in the demand for consulting services in this field. And yet the question still remains to what extent applied ethics inherits philosophical tradition and style of thinking. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the applied ethics is a continuation of philosophical inquiry in the way adjusted well to the demands of the pluralistic and democratic societies.

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2023

2012

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appear? and (3) How do we engage in applied ethics? What are the methods? In the second part of the article, I introduce professional ethics. What is professional ethics, and how can one distinguish professional ethics from applied ethics? I argue that the moral content of professional ethics is a result of professional relations. I also argue that professional ethics best can be understood as a type of virtue ethics.

This is a substantial introduction to the book, New Essays in Applied Ethics: Animal Rights, Personhood and the Ethics of Killing (UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Besides the summary of each essay, what may be of particular interest is the author's view on the nature of applied ethics, and what the term "applied ethics" may be a misnomer (and hence the term "practical ethics" is to be preferred).

Doctors and Torture, 2019

Overview Here in the last chapter of the book, I focus on two applied ethical frameworks and key professional and international guidelines prohibiting torture. We start with two of the major figures in Bioethics, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress. Their four principles are of central importance in Western Biomedical Ethics. They are: Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, and Justice. Each one is discussed and applied to doctors and torture. The second ethical framework considered is that of Ethicist Bernard Gert (2014) and the ten duties he considers universally applicable. All are then applied the question of doctors' involvement in torture-showing that doing so would be morally remiss. We then look at professional organizations and international codes; all of which prohibit torture. These include the Hippocratic Oath, World Medical Association and its Declaration of Tokyo, the American Medical Association, the International Council of Nurses, the Istanbul Protocol, and Physicians for Human Rights. These organizations and their guidelines emphasize the responsibility and accountability of doctors taking the right path-one to "Do no harm.

Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management, 2019

This paper attempts to explore the nature of controversial applied issues chiefly it deals with abortion. The author presents the overall of what are the major parts of moral philosophy and a great emphasizes is given to applied ethics. Within this short and precise work dear you will identify those arguments which are against and in favor of abortion. Pro-life and pro-choice abortionist arguments are assessed extensively which pinpoints permissibility or impossibility of abortion. How the dispute of abortion associated with political outlooks was assessed in connection to prominent groups of abortion. A pregnant woman also aborts a fetus because of socio-economic matters and does it is permissible or impossible in light of morality. Finally, the author conclude by identifying those exceptional cases that allow abortion, in favor of Thomson view and Warren conception of fetus as denial of fact is explored deeply.

The aim of this paper is to offer some philosophical remarks concerning the concept of moral application in applied ethics. In doing so, I argue in favour of a philosophical approach towards applied ethics as a unitary form of moral experience. In fact every form of applied ethics, no matter how specific, moves from a problem of application and tries to fill a gap between moral theory and practice. This essential unity of applied ethics as a moral phenomenon is of great philosophical interest, since it belongs to the core problem from which moral thinking itself originates. For this reason, what applied ethics may reveal to a philosophical inquiry could provide valuable insight into the nature of moral experience itself. This is why it is important to reflect on what applied ethics is and whether the way in which application is usually framed be ts the properties of moral experience or not. In the first section I submit some preliminary remarks concerning the theoretical requirements to any philosophical approach to applied ethics. In the second section I present how application is commonly understood in the applied ethics debate by discussing the deductive and the procedural models of application. Both models, however, draw upon a technological conception of application which fails to t the structure of moral experience. Finally, I brie y sketch out the main features and the future tasks of what seems to me to be the most promising approach to the issue, i.e., the hermeneutic concept of application.

Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, 2015

Applied ethics is an academic discipline that inquires about the correctness of certain practical human activities, primarily using philosophical methods. This inquiry can be traced to antiquity since ethics is mostly concerned with the practical actions of daily life, and different professions have codes guiding such actions. As an academic discipline, it was conceived in the West in the 1960s due to secularization, technological advances, and a void in public policy. The global dimension in recent years makes these issues more acute. Applied ethics can be further specialized into bioethics, environmental ethics, sexual ethics, business ethics, and social ethics, in additional to newly emerging areas. From a global perspective, this entry will address the debates on the existence of objective moral truths, the sources of morality, the proliferation of competing models, the role of science and technology, the role of religion, and the tension between universal ethics and cultural diversity.

International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering (ijasre), 2024

In essence, ethics is the study of right and wrong. It is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. It represents the moral code that guides a person's choices and behaviors throughout their life. Ethical issues, particularly concerning emerging technologies such as Internet of things, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and robotics, are now major concerns for businesses, organizations, and governments. This paper is on applied ethics in contemporary areas and it includes cybersecurity ethics, computer ethics, food ethics, business ethics, big data ethics, and research ethics.

Philosophia, 2008

The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in concern with matters of ethics in all areas of public life. This 'applied turn' in ethics raises important issues not only of focus, but also of methodology. Sometimes a moral end or moral feature is designed into an institution or technology; sometimes a morally desirable outcome is the fortuitous, but unintended, consequence of an institutional arrangement or technological invention. If designing-in ethics is the new methodological orientation for applied ethics, globalisation is providing many of the practical ethical problems upon which to deploy this methodology.