Bhoomika Jain234 wordsTheir whole copy
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Dimensions of ethics refer to various facets of ethics and its use case in daily life.
Key dimensions of ethics :-
| Meta-ethics | Normative Ethics | Descriptive Ethics | Applied Ethics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Questions about what ethics is and is it even needed. | Questions about what is ethical? | Deals with what actually is? | Various practical application of ethics |
| Relies on need for ethics and what constitutes ethics. | Right and wrong and what ought to be. | Contains Teleology, Deontology & virtue ethics as subcategorisation for describing ethics. | → sports ethics |
| → bio-ethics | |||
| → media ethics etc. | |||
| Eg: who defines ethics? |
Dimensions shaping ethical decision-making in private life →
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Navigating ethical dilemmas by providing various approaches to some dilemmas - Egs choosing virtue ethics while dealing with animals in research
Setting Priorities → Egs Lawyer following professional ethics to save client rather than whether client is speaking truth or not
Decision-making regarding what a person aspires to be → Egs Normative ethics to set an ideal for onesef
choosing courses of action →
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Egs Following deontology over teleology to save an accident victim when late for corporate deal
Ethics can only be caught not taught as said by Plato and dimensions of ethics supplement this learning.
1 more topper’s answer to this question, part by part, and how they all approached it: open the question.