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What are the three major areas of study within ethics?
What are the three major areas of study within ethics?
- Meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics (correct)
- Phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics
- Epistemology, metaphysics, and aesthetics
- Logic, language, and ontology
What does meta-ethics concern?
What does meta-ethics concern?
- The resolution of questions of human morality
- The practical means of determining a moral course of action
- The theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions (correct)
- What a person is obligated (or permitted) to do in a specific situation or a particular domain of action
What does applied ethics concern?
What does applied ethics concern?
- The practical means of determining a moral course of action
- What a person is obligated (or permitted) to do in a specific situation or a particular domain of action (correct)
- The theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions
- The resolution of questions of human morality
It studies morality or the rightness or wrongness of human conduct.
It studies morality or the rightness or wrongness of human conduct.