Ethical Theories

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What is ethics?

Deciding what actions are morally correct

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What is normative ethics?

Theories and ethicists arguements

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What is applied ethics?

The application of normative theories

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What is meta ethics?

The meaning of right and wrong / good and bad

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What is act utilitarianism?

The theory that only happiness is good and the right act is the act that maximises happiness

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What is hedonism?

From the Greek word ‘hedone’ - the claim that pleasure is happiness and the only good

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What is hedonist utilitarianism?

It understands that happiness is in terms of the balance of pleasure over pain