Applied Ethics Primer

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2023

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).

2022

This course provides an introduction to ethics, or moral philosophy. Ethics is the philosophical study of the nature of right or good actions, behaviors, and human lives. This topic is studied at different levels of generality. We focus on normative ethics-the study of what theory provides the best account of right and wrong as such-and applies ethics-the application of ethical theories to particular cases. We will also cover a few topics in metaethics-the study of the fundamental status of moral concepts, values, and language. Regarding normative ethics, we will perform an in-depth study of the three most important ethical theories: utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Our study of applied ethics will focus on topics in biomedical ethics as well as topics that are to be determined by student interest.

Ethics is a field of study concerned with the analysis of what is right, just and fair. It is the study of what is right and long. Ethics is an old area of study that has evolved for a very long time. Ethics can be divided into several categories, that is; descriptive ethics, normative ethics, Meta ethics and applied ethics. Applied ethics deals with the study of ethics in a particular field of specialization each the study of business ethics. Normative ethics is the study of ethics has it ought to be while descriptive ethics is the study of ethics as it is presently. Ethics is a universal concept which cuts across various fields. It is a controversial concept as it deals with what is right and wrong. The challenge here is that what is right to one party may not be right to another. This is purely the concept influenced by the norms and cultures of a people. Ethics is however not morality although most ethical principles are derive from morality. Ethics is related to law although whatever that is legal may not always be ethical, for example smoking and alcohol drinking. There is no standard form of ethics. As a result various ethical theories have been advanced to explain the essence of ethics. Ethics has also been institutionalized and introduced as a discipline in various institution of learning especially the higher learning institutions like universities and colleges. This has resulted in the development of the discipline as the interested scholars are making their efforts to research and publish more about the ethics discipline. This has enabled the advancement of the various fundamental ethical theories that had been advanced earlier by the initial scholars (Hatfield, 1989)

2012

Also as Webpages here: http://philosophy.lander.edu/ethics/ethicsbook/book1.html Readings drawn from classic works in philosophy and psychology from Plato to James. GFDL

2015

This is a very brief introduction to ethics that was originally written for the Bioethics and Professionalism curriculum for University of Pennsylvania's medical school.

Ethics: The Key Thinkers (2nd edition), 2023

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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.

Introduction to Ethics An Open Educational Resource, collected and edited by Noah Levin, 2019

Collected and edited by Noah Levin Table of Contents UNIT ONE: INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ETHICS: TECHNOLOGY, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, AND IMMIGRATION 1 The “Trolley Problem” and Self-Driving Cars: Your Car’s Moral Settings (Noah Levin) 2 What is Ethics and What Makes Something a Problem for Morality? (David Svolba) 3 Letter from the Birmingham City Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr) 4 A Defense of Affirmative Action (Noah Levin) 5 The Moral Issues of Immigration (B.M. Wooldridge) 6 The Ethics of our Digital Selves (Noah Levin) UNIT TWO: TORTURE, DEATH, AND THE “GREATER GOOD” 7 The Ethics of Torture (Martine Berenpas) 8 What Moral Obligations do we have (or not have) to Impoverished Peoples? (B.M. Wooldridge) 9 Euthanasia, or Mercy Killing (Nathan Nobis) 10 An Argument Against Capital Punishment (Noah Levin) 11 Common Arguments about Abortion (Nathan Nobis & Kristina Grob) 12 Better (Philosophical) Arguments about Abortion (Nathan Nobis & Kristina Grob) UNIT THREE: PERSONS, AUTONOMY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND RIGHTS 13 Animal Rights (Eduardo Salazar) 14 John Rawls and the “Veil of Ignorance” (Ben Davies) 15 Environmental Ethics: Climate Change (Jonathan Spelman) 16 Rape, Date Rape, and the “Affirmative Consent” Law in California (Noah Levin) 17 The Ethics of Pornography: Deliberating on a Modern Harm (Eduardo Salazar) 18 The Social Contract (Thomas Hobbes) UNIT FOUR: HAPPINESS 19 Is Pleasure all that Matters? Thoughts on the “Experience Machine” (Prabhpal Singh) 20 Utilitarianism (J.S. Mill) 21 Utilitarianism: Pros and Cons (B.M. Wooldridge) 22 Existentialism, Genetic Engineering, and the Meaning of Life: The Fifths (Noah Levin) 23 The Solitude of the Self (Elizabeth Cady Stanton) 24 Game Theory, the Nash Equilibrium, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma (Douglas E. Hill) UNIT FIVE: RELIGION, LAW, AND ABSOLUTE MORALITY 25 The Myth of Gyges and The Crito (Plato) 26 God, Morality, and Religion (Kristin Seemuth Whaley) 27 The Categorical Imperative (Immanuel Kant) 28 The Virtues (Aristotle) 29 Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche) 30 Other Moral Theories: Subjectivism, Relativism, Emotivism, Intuitionism, etc. (Jan F. Jacko)