Normative And Descriptive Statements

Normative Statements

Normative Ethics

Descriptive Statments

Not concerned with judgements of moral values

Descriptive Ethics

Different societies have different moral standards

Comparative ethics

Creating/ evaluating moral standards

Figuring out what should do and what should not do.

Good / Evil

Right / Wrong

*An action is wrong in society, but right in another society.

Eg : Abortion

Describes how people behave, what sort of mral standards they claim to follow

Eg: Most americans think racism is wrong, among certain cultures there is no stigma attached to homosexuality

Moral

Non-moral

Deontic Judgement

Involves moral obligation

Aretaic judgement

Only evaluates moral attributes but does not touch on a person's obligation