Ethics_Paper

Kimberly Jones Professor James Rhyne Ethics and Leadership in Criminal Justice –CRJ220 July 9, 2011 Meta-ethics deals with trying to understand nature of ethics. This theory does not contain any ethical evaluations. Five other theories have been inter locked with in Meta ethics. With this here are a couple of the five. The first is ethical intuitionism and ethical naturalism. Ethical intuitionism just means that there are moral objectives that cannot be changed or helped. Ethical naturalism says that the moral wrongs that are committed can be changed and fixed if necessary. Scientist says that learning this is just like learning scientific knowledge. Normative –ethics is simple to understand. This is just creating and understanding the moral concept. In this people are to know right from wrong and pick what is right. This is when people apply their thought process as to what they do. To figure out if they have committed a justifiable moral wrong, or if they find the right morals that they need to follow. This is the step when they are to try and fixed their moral wrongs that they have committed. In normative- ethics this is an investigative stage. Philosophers are usually doing the investigations on these aspects; the nature of moral standards ,principles, conduct, and rules. Applied-ethics is when you apply the theories that a philosopher has come up with to explain the everyday ethics that are happening in the world. For example, the disciple of applied ethics is in both business ethics and bioethics. One way to apply this part of ethics is when you ask certain questions. One question you might ask is, do you think a woman having an abortion is the right thing to do' Reference: www.atheism.com/library/FAQs/phil/bifaq_phileth_norm.htm www.ethics.org:au/living-ethics/ten-myths-about-ethics-complement-scripture www.noehumanism.org/m/me/meta_ethics.htlm www.yourdictionary.com/grammer/examples/examples-of-eth.html