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Normative Ethics: Virtue Ethics, Consequentialism, Deontological Ethics

• Ethics is a branch of philosophy that deal with study of morality. There are four main branches of ethics. They are; descriptive ethics, normative ethics, Meta ethics and applied ethics.
• Descriptive ethics deals with study of actions which are regarded as moral or immoral as per the customs, rules or regulations, laws, etc. Meta-ethics is also known as analytical ethics, it deals with the study of the origin of ethical concepts. It asks questions such as what is goodness or morality.
• Applied ethics de…

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Utilitarianism: Different Kinds of Utilitarianism

• Utilitarianism is an ethical philosophical theory according to which an action is moral if the result of that action leads to the greatest well-being for the greatest number of people.
• In other words, a moral action is the one which is more favorable to more number of people. In this sense, utilitarianism is the altruistic (well-being of all) or universalistic form of ethical hedonism.
• According to ethical hedonism or altruism, pleasure is the supreme ideal of life…

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