Abortion

Applied ethics and applied philosophy deal with controversial moral issues of ethics pertaining to a few spheres or arenas.

Some example:

• Female Infanticide
• Pornography
• Speciesism
• Plagiarism
• Surrogacy
• War tactics
• Censorship
• Abortion, etc.
  • So, applied philosophy raises awareness regarding moral questions.
  • It is important to note that applied ethics is distinguished from Normative Ethics.
  • Medical ethics is a branch of ethics that deals with moral issues in medical practice.
  • It studies medical issues ethically. For…

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Environmental Ethics

• Ecological perspective is concerned with understanding of an area where natural science and social science converges.
• In other words, it is an area where facts of natural science show the way to ethical or moral solutions.
• Ecology comes within the study of natural science, natural or eco philosophy.
• It implies moral conclusions to the problems which are drawn from the study of ecology.
• In short, ecology is the study of relationship between living organism and their environment.
• The term ecology was coine…

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